Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 60,513 stores from 37,303 retail and consumer chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. H Mart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Louis Vuitton and Gas N Wash.

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
37,303
Tracked stores
60,513
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. H Mart and Louis Vuitton sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲19 +19.1%
2 L Louis Vuitton logo Louis Vuitton ▲15 +18.9%
3 G Gas N Wash logo Gas N Wash ▲9 +18.8%
4 L Love's Travel Stop logo Love's Travel Stop ▲11 +18.5%
5 A Aritzia logo Aritzia ▲16 +18.0%
6 N Northwestern Medicine logo Northwestern Medicine ▲7 +13.3%
7 S Sunset Foods ▲17 +12.8%
8 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲8 +12.6%
9 A Advocate Health Care logo Advocate Health Care ▲13 +12.6%
10 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲5 +12.4%
11 V Victoria's Secret logo Victoria's Secret ▲15 +12.3%
12 T The Cheesecake Factory logo The Cheesecake Factory ▲9 +11.4%
13 C Choice Hotels logo Choice Hotels ▲2 +11.0%
14 D Delta Sonic Car Wash logo Delta Sonic Car Wash ▲11 +9.5%
15 B Berkot's Super Foods logo Berkot's Super Foods ▲8 +9.4%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 60,513 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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