Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 28,036 stores from 13,881 retail and consumer chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Tony's Fresh Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Aritzia and QuikTrip.

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
13,881
Tracked stores
28,036
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. Tony's Fresh Market and Aritzia sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tony's Fresh Market logo Tony's Fresh Market ▲5 +19.7%
2 A Aritzia logo Aritzia ▲19 +19.5%
3 Q QuikTrip logo QuikTrip ▲11 +19.0%
4 A Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets logo Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets ▲14 +18.8%
5 P Pete's Market logo Pete's Market ▲6 +17.1%
6 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲5 +17.1%
7 R Round1 logo Round1 ▲8 +16.2%
8 N Northwestern Medicine logo Northwestern Medicine ▲13 +15.5%
9 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +15.4%
10 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲9 +15.2%
11 P Pete's Fresh Market logo Pete's Fresh Market ▲9 +14.9%
12 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲10 +14.2%
13 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲9 +13.8%
14 O Office Depot logo Office Depot ▲5 +13.3%
15 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage ▲12 +12.2%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 28,036 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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