Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 821 stores from 354 ice cream & frozen treats in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Creamery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Menchie's Frozen Yogurt and Kilwins.

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
354
Tracked stores
821
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ice cream & frozen treats

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. Creamery and Menchie's Frozen Yogurt sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Creamery ▲2 +8.5%
2 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt - +4.4%
3 K Kilwins logo Kilwins - +0.8%
4 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard ▲1 -3.9%
5 J Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams logo Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams ▲1 -4.0%
6 O Oberweis logo Oberweis - -4.2%
7 L La Michoacana - -6.1%
8 B Ben & Jerry's logo Ben & Jerry's - -11.3%
9 R Red Mango logo Red Mango ▼1 -11.8%
10 T The Scoop - -13.2%
11 L La Michoacana Premium - -15.5%
12 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -16.0%
13 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery ▼1 -18.4%
14 L Los Mangos ▼2 -18.7%
15 L Las Delicias de Michoacan - -20.5%
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Dairy Queen
  • La Michoacana
  • Oberweis
  • La Michoacana Premium
  • Andy's Frozen Custard
  • Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Baskin-Robbins (123)
  • Dairy Queen (138)
  • La Michoacana (36)
  • Oberweis (29)
  • La Michoacana Premium (14)
  • Andy's Frozen Custard (18)
  • Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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