Trends · data through August 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 1,405 stores from 1,194 leisure & travel chains in Illinois. Round1 grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Best Western and Kids Empire.

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
1,194
Tracked stores
1,405
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. Round1 and Best Western sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Round1 logo Round1 ▲2 +14.8%
2 B Best Western logo Best Western ▲5 +14.3%
3 K Kids Empire logo Kids Empire ▲1 +9.4%
4 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲3 +8.3%
5 A American Taxi logo American Taxi - +6.3%
6 H Hampton Inn & Suites logo Hampton Inn & Suites - +5.3%
7 W Westin logo Westin - +5.2%
8 C Courtyard by Marriott logo Courtyard by Marriott ▲3 +5.1%
9 S Sky Zone Trampoline Park logo Sky Zone Trampoline Park ▲2 +3.5%
10 H Hampton by Hilton logo Hampton by Hilton ▲2 +2.3%
11 C Country Inn & Suites logo Country Inn & Suites ▲2 +1.2%
12 D Drury Hotels logo Drury Hotels - +1.0%
13 C Crowne Plaza logo Crowne Plaza - -0.8%
14 F Fairfield Inn & Suites logo Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 -1.1%
15 C Classic Cinemas logo Classic Cinemas - -1.2%

Store footprint

Store map

1,405 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category.

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