Trends · data through July 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 1,186 stores from 997 leisure & travel chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Best Western grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Round1 and Kids Empire.

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
997
Tracked stores
1,186
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked leisure & travel 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. Best Western and Round1 sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Best Western logo Best Western ▲4 +18.9%
2 R Round1 logo Round1 ▲3 +15.7%
3 K Kids Empire logo Kids Empire ▲1 +10.6%
4 H Hampton by Hilton logo Hampton by Hilton ▲2 +8.1%
5 A American Taxi logo American Taxi ▲1 +7.2%
6 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲3 +6.8%
7 U Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park logo Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park ▲3 +6.7%
8 C Courtyard by Marriott logo Courtyard by Marriott ▲2 +6.2%
9 W Westin logo Westin ▲2 +5.7%
10 H Hampton Inn & Suites logo Hampton Inn & Suites - +5.5%
11 S Stardust Bowl - +3.5%
12 F Fairfield Inn & Suites logo Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 +0.2%
13 C Classic Cinemas logo Classic Cinemas ▼1 -0.5%
14 C Crowne Plaza logo Crowne Plaza - -1.1%
15 H Hyatt Regency logo Hyatt Regency - -1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,186 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category.

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