Trends · data through July 2026

Shoe Stores in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 199 stores from 38 shoe stores chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. JD Sports grew fastest over the last year, ahead of SKECHERS and SNIPES.

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: 38
Tracked stores: 199
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked shoe stores 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. JD Sports and SKECHERS sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	J JD Sports	-	+14.4%
2	S SKECHERS	▲1	+13.1%
3	S SNIPES	▲1	+7.3%
4	V Vans	-	+4.1%
5	A ALDO	-	+1.5%
6	D DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse	-	0.0%
7	C Champs Sports	-	-0.4%
8	D DTLR	-	-1.0%
9	J Journeys	-	-1.1%
10	F Foot Locker	-	-2.1%
11	S Shoe Carnival	-	-4.1%
12	F Famous Footwear	▲1	-6.7%
13	C Crocs	▲1	-19.2%
14	F Finish Line	▼4	-43.3%

Foot Locker
DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse
JD Sports
DTLR
Shoe Carnival
Champs Sports
Journeys
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

Foot Locker (16)
DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse (24)
JD Sports (12)
DTLR (17)
Shoe Carnival (19)
Champs Sports (11)
Journeys (13)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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