Trends · data through September 2026

Sneakers & Athletic Brands in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 176 stores from 16 sneakers & athletic brands in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. JD Sports grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fleet Feet and Foot Locker.

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
16
Tracked stores
176
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked sneakers & athletic brands

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 Fleet Feet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J JD Sports logo JD Sports - +11.0%
2 F Fleet Feet logo Fleet Feet ▲2 +6.5%
3 F Foot Locker logo Foot Locker - +5.5%
4 N New Balance logo New Balance ▲2 +2.0%
5 R Road Runner Sports logo Road Runner Sports - +0.9%
6 C Champs Sports logo Champs Sports - -1.0%
7 N Nike logo Nike - -4.7%
8 R Reebok logo Reebok - -8.5%
9 D DTLR logo DTLR - -10.1%
10 T The Athlete's Foot logo The Athlete's Foot ▲1 -10.8%
11 U Under Armour logo Under Armour ▼1 -29.5%
12 F Finish Line logo Finish Line ▼4 -58.5%
  • Foot Locker
  • Nike
  • JD Sports
  • DTLR
  • Champs Sports
  • SNIPES
  • adidas
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Foot Locker (43)
  • Nike (6)
  • JD Sports (13)
  • DTLR (36)
  • Champs Sports (12)
  • SNIPES (17)
  • adidas (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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