Market › States › Illinois Who is opening stores in Illinois Cobroker has verified 2,192 new store openings in Illinois across 708 chains. Each one is an individually confirmed new location, not a quarter-over-quarter difference in a store count.
Chains opening the most locations in Illinois Ranked by verified openings in Illinois. The count beside each brand is its Illinois openings — not a national figure.
Chains that just arrived in Illinois Their first verified Illinois opening falls inside the tracked window — a new entrant to the state, not an existing operator.
National chains with no Illinois presence Brands with meaningful scale elsewhere in the US and no location recorded in Illinois.
Illinois cities with the most chains opening Looking for sites in Illinois? Name a brand and Cobroker ranks the Illinois trade areas that match where it already performs — demographics, co-tenancy, traffic.
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Site selection Site Selection Project Brand DNA, top markets, ranked search areas and scored parcels, in one project. Neighborhood monitors A standing watch on the areas you picked, so new listings surface as they appear. Client deliverables A report, a presentation deck and a video brief, produced from the same project. Free to use Market Which US retail chains are opening stores fastest, by category and by state. Find Your Next Deal Screen the country for the areas where one brand should open next. Property reports Hand it an address: which brands fit the site, and who owns it. For teams Property agent An AI analyst inside the project that works your property data with you. Enterprise modules Custom tools built into your workspace for one portfolio's workflow. Your projects Everything you have run, in one workspace.