Trends · data through September 2026

Boba & Drink Shops in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 125 stores from 94 boba & drink shops in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Candy Cloud grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kung Fu Tea and Boba Heaven.

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
94
Tracked stores
125
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked boba & drink shops

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. Candy Cloud and Kung Fu Tea sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Candy Cloud logo Candy Cloud - +2.6%
2 K Kung Fu Tea logo Kung Fu Tea ▲1 -0.4%
3 B Boba Heaven - -17.0%
4 T Tsaocaa logo Tsaocaa - -27.7%
5 C Chill Bubble Tea ▼1 -30.9%
6 T Twisted Sugar logo Twisted Sugar - -61.1%
7 G Gong Cha logo Gong Cha - -70.0%
  • SFCO
  • Gathers Tea Bar
  • Candy Cloud
  • Bubblelicious
  • Kung Fu Tea
  • Uni Uni
  • Chill Bubble Tea
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

125 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • SFCO (1)
  • Gathers Tea Bar (1)
  • Candy Cloud (3)
  • Bubblelicious (2)
  • Kung Fu Tea (6)
  • Uni Uni (2)
  • Chill Bubble Tea (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 K Kung Fu Tea logo Kung Fu Tea 6
  • 2 C Chill Bubble Tea 5
  • 3 B Boba Heaven 4
  • 4 C Candy Cloud logo Candy Cloud 3
  • 5 T Twisted Sugar logo Twisted Sugar 3
  • 6 G Gong Cha logo Gong Cha 3
  • 7 T Tsaocaa logo Tsaocaa 3
  • 8 E Elitea 2
  • 9 T Tbaar logo Tbaar 2
  • 10 V Vivi Bubble Tea logo Vivi Bubble Tea 2
  • 11 B Bearology logo Bearology 2
  • 12 D Daboba 2
  • 13 C Cloud Tea 2
  • 14 T Teame Boba 2
  • 15 D Dom's Kitchen & Market 2
  • 16 C Chi Tea 2
  • 17 B Bubblelicious 2
  • 18 U Uni Uni 2
  • 19 C Chai Biscuit Cafe 1
  • 20 P Poppers Tea 1
  • 21 A Adrians Foods Market 1
  • 22 C Chali Chali 1
  • 23 I iBoba Bubble Tea 1
  • 24 T Tealicious Bubble 1
  • 25 P Pinky Promise Boba 1
  • 26 E EternaTea Boba 1
  • 27 M Möge Tee logo Möge Tee 1
  • 28 B Boba Bros 1
  • 29 F Forever Boba Tea 1
  • 30 E Everest Frozen Custard & Bubble Tea 1
  • 31 D Ding Tea logo Ding Tea 1
  • 32 C Cloud Tea-Rolling Meadow 1
  • 33 B Brew 'n Bubble 1
  • 34 V Varsity Vending & Coffee Service 1
  • 35 U Ume Tea 1
  • 36 T Tea Ninja 1
  • 37 S Sweet Dragon Boba Tea 1
  • 38 L Luna Tea 1
  • 39 L Lady Sweet 1
  • 40 F Froyo 1
  • 41 C CosMc's logo CosMc's 1
  • 42 H Honey Bee Boba 1
  • 43 H Happy Lemon logo Happy Lemon 1
  • 44 B Boba Blast 1
  • 45 T The Wright Group 1
  • 46 P Pearl and Brew Tea Coffee Bubble Tea 1
  • 47 J Jay's Bubble Tea Cafe 1
  • 48 T Teacago 1
  • 49 S sweet dim sum 1
  • 50 C Cheli's Boba Cafe 1

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