Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 9,035 stores from 4,498 retail chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Coach grew fastest over the last year, ahead of SKECHERS and Aritzia.

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
4,498
Tracked stores
9,035
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Coach and SKECHERS sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Coach ▲7 +19.2%
2 SKECHERS ▲10 +18.5%
3 Aritzia ▲7 +17.9%
4 Benjamin Moore ▲5 +17.7%
5 Helzberg Diamonds ▲5 +17.3%
6 Gap ▲16 +17.1%
7 Graham Crackers Comics ▲4 +15.6%
8 Louis Vuitton ▲5 +15.3%
9 Ollie's Bargain Outlet ▲6 +15.1%
10 Garage ▲13 +14.7%
11 Reckless Records ▲6 +14.4%
12 Pure Hockey ▲7 +12.0%
13 BoxLunch ▲9 +11.9%
14 Ace Hardware - +11.0%
15 Ross Dress for Less ▲1 +11.0%

Store footprint

Store map

9,035 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 809 of the 9,035 stores (9%); 3,937 of the 4,498 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 13% across Illinois.

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