Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 659 stores from 416 Chinese chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Asian Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Happy Wok and China Kitchen.

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
416
Tracked stores
659
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Chinese 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. Asian Kitchen and Happy Wok sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Asian Kitchen ▲1 +18.1%
2 H Happy Wok ▲2 +14.3%
3 C China Kitchen ▲1 +13.3%
4 W Wing Wah ▲2 +6.2%
5 F Fortune House ▲2 +4.6%
6 M MingHin Cuisine - +3.8%
7 Y Yu's Mandarin - +1.2%
8 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +0.8%
9 C China Express ▲1 +0.6%
10 L Lao Sze Chuan ▲2 +0.5%
11 C China Wok - +0.3%
12 C China Garden ▼1 -1.2%
13 C China Chef ▼1 -1.5%
14 S See Thru Chinese Kitchen - -3.0%
15 G Great Wall ▲1 -3.9%
  • Panda Express
  • MingHin Cuisine
  • Manchu Wok
  • New Star
  • China Wok
  • See Thru Chinese Kitchen
  • Shabu Plus Rotary Hot Pot
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Panda Express (109)
  • MingHin Cuisine (3)
  • Manchu Wok (1)
  • New Star (1)
  • China Wok (13)
  • See Thru Chinese Kitchen (6)
  • Shabu Plus Rotary Hot Pot (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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