Trends · data through June 2026

Sporting Goods Stores in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 136 stores from 56 sporting goods stores chains in Illinois. Golf Galaxy grew fastest over the last year, ahead of PGA TOUR Superstore and Academy Sports + Outdoors.

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
56
Tracked stores
136
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked sporting goods stores 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. Golf Galaxy and PGA TOUR Superstore sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Golf Galaxy logo Golf Galaxy +9.7%
2 P PGA TOUR Superstore logo PGA TOUR Superstore +7.6%
3 A Academy Sports + Outdoors logo Academy Sports + Outdoors +5.7%
4 B Bass Pro Shops logo Bass Pro Shops +2.0%
5 D DICK'S Sporting Goods logo DICK'S Sporting Goods -0.4%
6 D Dunham's Sports logo Dunham's Sports -6.4%
7 P Play It Again Sports logo Play It Again Sports -6.7%
8 N Nike logo Nike -7.8%
9 P Pure Hockey logo Pure Hockey -9.8%
10 A adidas logo adidas -11.1%
  • DICK'S Sporting Goods
  • Nike
  • Bass Pro Shops
  • Scheels
  • Academy Sports + Outdoors
  • PGA TOUR Superstore
  • adidas
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

136 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • DICK'S Sporting Goods (32)
  • Nike (6)
  • Bass Pro Shops (3)
  • Scheels (1)
  • Academy Sports + Outdoors (3)
  • PGA TOUR Superstore (4)
  • adidas (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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