Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 122 stores from 16 teen & young adult apparel chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Garage grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Topic and Buckle.

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
122
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel 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. Garage and Hot Topic sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Garage logo Garage ▲2 +19.3%
2 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic ▲2 +12.1%
3 B Buckle logo Buckle ▼1 +3.9%
4 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▼1 +0.2%
5 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - -1.4%
6 T Tillys logo Tillys - -4.5%
7 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - -5.1%
8 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez - -6.7%
9 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. - -9.6%
10 P PacSun logo PacSun ▼2 -12.9%
11 H Hot Rags logo Hot Rags - -15.0%
12 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters - -50.9%
  • American Eagle
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • Hollister Co.
  • Aéropostale
  • Hot Topic
  • Zumiez
  • PacSun
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • American Eagle (16)
  • Abercrombie & Fitch (4)
  • Hollister Co. (9)
  • Aéropostale (11)
  • Hot Topic (14)
  • Zumiez (12)
  • PacSun (8)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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