Trends · data through September 2026

Sneakers & Athletic Brands in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 218 stores from 17 sneakers & athletic brands in Illinois. JD Sports grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Foot Locker and Fleet Feet.

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
17
Tracked stores
218
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 Foot Locker sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J JD Sports logo JD Sports - +9.9%
2 F Foot Locker logo Foot Locker - +5.4%
3 F Fleet Feet logo Fleet Feet ▲1 +4.0%
4 N New Balance logo New Balance ▲1 +2.3%
5 R Road Runner Sports logo Road Runner Sports - +1.2%
6 C Champs Sports logo Champs Sports - -1.2%
7 H Hibbett Sports logo Hibbett Sports - -2.7%
8 N Nike logo Nike - -4.3%
9 R Reebok logo Reebok - -8.2%
10 D DTLR logo DTLR - -9.1%
11 T The Athlete's Foot logo The Athlete's Foot - -10.5%
12 U Under Armour logo Under Armour ▼2 -29.3%
13 F Finish Line logo Finish Line - -45.5%
  • Foot Locker
  • Nike
  • JD Sports
  • DTLR
  • Champs Sports
  • SNIPES
  • adidas
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Foot Locker (45)
  • Nike (6)
  • JD Sports (16)
  • DTLR (36)
  • Champs Sports (14)
  • SNIPES (19)
  • adidas (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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