Trends · data through September 2026

Family & Value Apparel in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 165 stores from 23 family & value apparel chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Ashley Stewart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Gap and K&G Fashion Superstore.

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
23
Tracked stores
165
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked family & value 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. Ashley Stewart and Gap sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Ashley Stewart logo Ashley Stewart - +19.0%
2 G Gap logo Gap ▲1 +16.2%
3 K K&G Fashion Superstore logo K&G Fashion Superstore - -0.2%
4 G Gap Factory logo Gap Factory - -2.1%
5 C Citi Trends logo Citi Trends - -4.5%
6 O Old Navy logo Old Navy - -7.2%
7 L Levi's logo Levi's ▼1 -8.8%
8 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops - -13.0%
9 N Nautica logo Nautica - -17.2%
10 T Tommy Hilfiger logo Tommy Hilfiger - -18.4%
  • Old Navy
  • Uniqlo
  • Rainbow Shops
  • Gap
  • Levi's
  • Citi Trends
  • K&G Fashion Superstore
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Old Navy (57)
  • Uniqlo (2)
  • Rainbow Shops (37)
  • Gap (6)
  • Levi's (8)
  • Citi Trends (18)
  • K&G Fashion Superstore (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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