Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 4,214 stores from 3,230 leisure & travel chains in Illinois. Crowne Plaza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Days Inn and Four Seasons.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
3,230
Tracked stores
4,214
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked leisure & travel chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Crowne Plaza and Days Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Crowne Plaza ▲6 +19.1%
2 Days Inn ▲2 +18.1%
3 Four Seasons ▲2 +16.0%
4 Classic Cinemas ▲3 +14.6%
5 Kids Empire ▲2 +14.1%
6 Home2 Suites by Hilton ▲1 +13.4%
7 Best Western ▲4 +12.9%
8 Baymont by Wyndham - +11.7%
9 Best Western Plus - +10.9%
10 Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲3 +9.9%
11 Westin ▲4 +9.5%
12 Courtyard by Marriott ▲5 +9.0%
13 Choice Hotels ▲3 +8.9%
14 Lincoln Park - +8.7%
15 Altitude Trampoline Park ▲3 +8.5%

Store footprint

Store map

4,214 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 311 of the 4,214 stores (7%); 3,058 of the 3,230 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are parks, against 7% across the United States.

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