Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 159 stores from 17 teen & young adult apparel chains in Illinois. Hot Topic grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buckle and Aéropostale.

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
17
Tracked stores
159
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel 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. Hot Topic and Buckle sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic ▲3 +13.1%
2 B Buckle logo Buckle - +0.3%
3 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - -1.6%
4 T Tillys logo Tillys - -3.1%
5 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - -4.6%
6 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez - -6.6%
7 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▼1 -6.8%
8 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. - -8.5%
9 P PacSun logo PacSun ▼2 -13.2%
10 H Hot Rags logo Hot Rags - -14.2%
11 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters - -50.5%
  • American Eagle
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • Aéropostale
  • Hollister Co.
  • Buckle
  • Hot Topic
  • Spencer's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • American Eagle (21)
  • Abercrombie & Fitch (4)
  • Aéropostale (14)
  • Hollister Co. (10)
  • Buckle (15)
  • Hot Topic (19)
  • Spencer's (24)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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