Trends · data through August 2026

Other trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 1,865 stores from 1,359 other chains in Illinois. Rural King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CubeSmart Self Storage and VFW.

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
1,359
Tracked stores
1,865
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked other 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. Rural King and CubeSmart Self Storage sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Rural King logo Rural King ▲1 +8.1%
2 C CubeSmart Self Storage logo CubeSmart Self Storage ▲1 +6.5%
3 V VFW logo VFW - +3.6%
4 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage - +1.5%
5 T The UPS Store logo The UPS Store ▲2 +1.3%
6 L Laundry World ▲1 +1.1%
7 C Chicago ▲1 -3.9%
8 C CD One Price Cleaners logo CD One Price Cleaners ▲1 -7.6%
9 T The Salvation Army logo The Salvation Army ▲1 -7.7%
10 U United States Postal Service logo United States Postal Service ▲1 -8.1%
11 I Illinois Secretary of State logo Illinois Secretary of State ▲1 -8.9%
12 E European Wax Center logo European Wax Center - -16.7%
13 A American Legion logo American Legion ▲1 -18.0%
14 S Sugaring NYC - -18.6%
15 S Smart Wash Laundry ▼2 -42.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,865 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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