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It would appear Darien residents love their ice cream more than the average American.
In advance of National Ice Cream Day this Sunday, Crain’s Chicago Business has released data about how much money each suburbs spends on ice cream, via an interactive map that shows ice cream spending by ZIP code.
Darien’s index is 137, beat out by Willowbrook at 151, Lemont and Oakbrook at 154, Wheaton at 167 and Clarendon Hills at 169. Residents of Naperville’s 60564 ZIP code really love ice cream, with the highest index in the county: 207. Hinsdale is next, with an index of 201.
To find your community on the map, select your county and municipality to see if its ZIP code falls above or below the national average (represented by an index of 100).
If an area has an index of 105, then people there spent 5 percent more that the national average (an index of 95 means the area spent 5 percent less).
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of the month—falling this year on Sunday, July 15—as National Ice Cream Day.
Check out Darien Patch's business directory for shops and restaurants that serve ice cream.
HUNGRY FOR MORE?
- Northwest Indiana Times’ website offers a list of ice-cream-related apps ranked by Mobilwalla to get your appetite and creative juices flowing.
- Elk Grove Patch reports on some fun facts about National Ice Cream month.
- St. Charles, MO Patch shares how to enjoy frozen treats without killing your diet.
- Baskin-Robbins, the world's largest chain of ice cream specialty shops, commissioned an independent survey of 1,000 U.S. respondents to get the scoop on how Americans plan to enjoy ice cream this summer.
- To help celebrate National Ice Cream Day, Baskin-Robbins is holding a Twitter sweepstakes this Sunday to give ice cream lovers a chance to win $260 in Baskin-Robbins gift cards, enough to keep the ice cream scoops flowing for a year. For more information about the sweepstakes, visit BaskinRobbins.com or follow @BaskinRobbins on Twitter.
