Trends · data through September 2026

Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 284 stores from 103 shoe stores & footwear brands in Illinois. Journeys grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Famous Footwear and Shoe Carnival.

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
103
Tracked stores
284
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked shoe stores & footwear 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. Journeys and Famous Footwear sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Journeys logo Journeys - +8.2%
2 F Famous Footwear logo Famous Footwear - +0.7%
3 S Shoe Carnival logo Shoe Carnival ▲1 -0.2%
4 C Crocs logo Crocs - -0.2%
5 D Dr. Martens AirWair Japan logo Dr. Martens AirWair Japan ▲1 -1.7%
6 A ALDO logo ALDO ▲2 -4.8%
7 T Tradehome Shoes logo Tradehome Shoes ▲1 -6.2%
8 V Vans logo Vans ▲1 -7.3%
9 D DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse logo DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse ▼1 -8.5%
10 S Shoe Dept. Encore - -10.1%
11 U UGG logo UGG ▼5 -63.6%
  • Shoe Carnival
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse
  • Journeys
  • Famous Footwear
  • Crocs
  • Vans
  • ALDO
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Shoe Carnival (31)
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse (29)
  • Journeys (21)
  • Famous Footwear (35)
  • Crocs (4)
  • Vans (12)
  • ALDO (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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