Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 12,100 stores from 5,645 retail chains in Illinois. Coach grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Aritzia and Benjamin Moore.

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
5,645
Tracked stores
12,100
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Coach and Aritzia sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Coach ▲6 +19.9%
2 Aritzia ▲8 +18.6%
3 Benjamin Moore ▲5 +18.4%
4 Blick Art Materials ▲20 +18.3%
5 Gap ▲14 +17.7%
6 Menards - +17.6%
7 Louis Vuitton ▲7 +15.9%
8 Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲3 +15.8%
9 HobbyTown ▲12 +15.5%
10 Garage ▲18 +15.3%
11 SKECHERS ▲11 +15.1%
12 Reckless Records - +15.1%
13 Graham Crackers Comics ▲4 +15.0%
14 Five Below ▲1 +14.7%
15 BoxLunch ▲19 +12.9%

Store footprint

Store map

12,100 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,686 of the 12,100 stores (14%); 5,017 of the 5,645 tracked chains have a single store here.

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