Trends · data through September 2026

Department Stores in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 126 stores from 14 department stores in Illinois. Kohl's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Macy's and JCPenney.

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: 14
Tracked stores: 126
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked department stores

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. Kohl's and Macy's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	K Kohl's	-	+1.6%
2	M Macy's	-	-0.9%
3	J JCPenney	-	-3.1%
4	B Bealls	-	-15.7%

Kohl's
Macy's
JCPenney
Cook Brothers
Dufry
Quincy Farm & Home Supply
Bealls
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

126 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

Kohl's (68)
Macy's (21)
JCPenney (24)
Cook Brothers (1)
Dufry (1)
Quincy Farm & Home Supply (1)
Bealls (3)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

1 K Kohl's 68
2 J JCPenney 24
3 M Macy's 21
4 B Bealls 3
5 C Cook Brothers 1
6 D Dufry 1
7 Q Quincy Farm & Home Supply 1
8 H Havana Farm & Home Supply 1
9 J J Bees 1
10 C Clark Fashion Depot 1
11 M Mary's Emporium 1
12 B Bourbonnais Sears 1
13 F Farm King 1
14 T The Local Lot 1

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