IKEA to close Bolingbrook store, open smaller Naperville location at Block 59 in late 2027

IKEA said on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, that the company will close IKEA Bolingbrook at 750 E. Boughton Road and move to a smaller store at the Block 59 shopping center on Route 59 in Naperville. The Bolingbrook store will stay open until late 2027, and the Naperville store is slated to open in late 2027, according to IKEA’s announcement.

Bolingbrook straddles Will and DuPage counties, and the IKEA store sits just off I-355. The new site, at Route 59 and Aurora Avenue as The Herald-News reported, is about eight miles away in the DuPage County part of Naperville. IKEA has not set an exact last day in Bolingbrook, and the announcement did not say how many people work at the store or what happens to their jobs.

Here is the move at a glance, based on IKEA’s announcement and local reporting.

• The Bolingbrook store at 750 E. Boughton Road remains open until late 2027.
• The replacement is a small-format IKEA store at the Block 59 shopping center in Naperville, slated to open in late 2027.
• IKEA says the Naperville store will include a Swedish Food Market and a Swedish Deli.
• IKEA has not released the Naperville store’s square footage or street address.
• The Schaumburg store keeps IKEA’s full range of products and services, within 30 minutes of the Naperville site.

What IKEA said about the move

In the announcement on the company’s U.S. newsroom, IKEA called the relocation part of an effort to “meet customers where they are.” The company said shoppers increasingly live, work and shop across the wider Bolingbrook-Naperville corridor, and that the new location puts the store closer to growing population centers and a popular shopping district. IKEA described the Naperville store as a streamlined shopping experience. Shoppers who want the full range of products, services and delivery options still have the Schaumburg store, which IKEA says is within 30 minutes of the new site.

Sam Gravina, IKEA’s Chicago metro market manager, said the smaller format is meant to meet the needs of the market more effectively. “It will make the most of every square foot,” Gravina said, according to the Daily Herald. He declined to say exactly where along Route 59 the store will go, the paper reported. The Naperville opening and the Bolingbrook closing are expected to line up in late 2027, CBS Chicago reported.

Where the Naperville store will go

IKEA’s announcement places the store at the Block 59 shopping center but gives no street address. Block 59 is the restaurant and entertainment district at 404 S. Route 59. The IKEA space sits next door in the older Westridge Court center at 204 S. Route 59, which falls inside the same city business district. Brixmor Property Group owns both centers and lists IKEA on the Westridge Court leasing plan in a 97,079-square-foot space.

In September, NCTV17 reported that about 28,000 square feet of older storefronts along Aurora Avenue would be torn down and combined into one large space for a home goods and furniture retailer, and that three tenants had moved or were moving elsewhere on Route 59 to make room. Brixmor had not named the retailer at the time.

IKEA itself has not released the store’s size. A Village of Bolingbrook statement, reported by WJOL, put the new store at about 66,000 square feet, while Brixmor’s plan shows the larger figure. Either number is less than a third of the two-story Bolingbrook building, which local outlets have put at 310,000 to 317,000 square feet.

Naperville approved an extra incentive in June

The Naperville City Council cleared the way for the project on June 16, 2026. By a 6-2 vote, the council approved amendments to the Block 59 Business District plan and redevelopment agreement that add $1.85 million to the costs Brixmor can recover, on the condition that the lease the developer proposed is signed, according to the meeting minutes. Council members Mary Gibson and Ian Holzhauer voted no, and Josh McBroom was absent.

The council created the business district on March 21, 2023, with an extra 1% sales tax on purchases inside the district, according to the amended district plan. That tax sits on top of Naperville’s 7.75% general merchandise rate and repays the developer for eligible costs over a 23-year term. The minutes say the amendment does not lengthen the district or raise the tax, and that the city owes nothing if district sales fall short of repaying the developer. The amended plan caps eligible project costs at about $15.5 million.

At the June meeting the tenant was still unnamed. Brixmor’s Rich Dippolito told the council that the demolition and utility work needed for the new tenant had not been planned, and that the tenant would draw new interest to the development. Mayor Scott Wehrli said then that Naperville lags in home goods and furniture sales, NCTV17 reported. The Daily Herald, citing a retail consultant’s figures, put Naperville’s furniture and electronics sales at $257 million last year, behind Schaumburg at $286 million and Glenview at $695 million.

After IKEA’s announcement, Wehrli said in a Brixmor news release that IKEA’s sales tax revenue will “help fund city services and ease the burden on property taxpayers,” NCTV17 reported. Dippolito said in a news release that Westridge Court and Block 59 draw nearly 7 million visits a year.

What happens to the Bolingbrook store

The Village of Bolingbrook said in a statement that village officials learned of IKEA’s plan on October 6 from news reports. IKEA owns the roughly 27-acre Bolingbrook property along the I-355 and Boughton Road corridor and received no tax incentives from the village when the store opened, according to the statement. No plan has been announced for the building, ABC7 Chicago reported.

Mayor Mary Alexander-Basta said the village looks forward to “opening a dialogue with the company regarding its plans for the 27-acre property,” Patch reported. Revenue from the store’s early years helped Bolingbrook drop its local vehicle sticker, and the village has no plans to bring the sticker back, the mayor said. The village’s statement did not put a figure on the sales tax the store generates.

IKEA broke ground in Bolingbrook in September 2004, a trade report from the time shows, and opened the store in September 2005, according to The Herald-News. NBC Chicago noted that IKEA has been in Bolingbrook for more than two decades.

What Bolingbrook shoppers should know

For now the Bolingbrook store runs as usual, and IKEA’s store page carries no closing notice.

• The store is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, according to IKEA’s store page.
• The Swedish Restaurant is open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
• The store will be closed on Thanksgiving, November 26, 2026, and on Christmas Day.
• Click & Collect orders are held for 24 hours, and drive-up pickup is on the south side of the building.
• IKEA’s return policy takes back unopened items within 365 days and opened items within 180 days with proof of purchase.
• The policy says returns are handled at IKEA stores, not at pickup points or planning studios.

IKEA’s U.S. customer service line is (888) 888-4532. IKEA has not said whether Bolingbrook orders, returns or pickups will shift to Naperville once the Boughton Road store closes.

IKEA’s other Chicago-area stores

IKEA’s store locator lists two Illinois stores today, Bolingbrook and Schaumburg. The Schaumburg store, at 1800 McConnor Parkway, opened in 1998 as IKEA’s largest store in North America at the time and is about 400,000 square feet, according to NBC Chicago. The Daily Herald put the Schaumburg store at 450,000 square feet.

A third Illinois store is in the works in Gurnee. NBC Chicago reported in February that the Gurnee store would be about 66,000 square feet, and an earlier announcement pointed to fall 2026. IKEA did not respond to NBC Chicago’s request for an update this week, and IKEA’s locator still lists Gurnee only as a pickup point. The locator shows no planning studio or plan-and-order location in Illinois. The locator’s other Chicago pickup points are on the Loyola, UIC and University of Chicago campuses.

How the move fits IKEA’s small-store push

The Naperville store is part of a wider shift to smaller IKEA stores. Gravina said IKEA is opening new-format stores in areas and shopping centers where IKEA customers already shop, the Daily Herald reported. The paper said small-format stores opened this year in Culver City, California, and Phoenix, while a small store in San Marcos, Texas, closes November 1 after about a year.

IKEA is also pulling back on one smaller concept. Retail Dive reported on October 2 that IKEA is closing three plan-and-order stores with pickup, in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, Annapolis, Maryland, and Fairfax, Virginia, between October 18 and November 30. IKEA called the closings part of the company’s “strategy to build a more affordable, accessible, and sustainable future,” and workers at those stores can move to nearby IKEA locations, the trade publication reported.

Timeline and next steps

The key dates so far come from city records, IKEA and local reporting.

• Naperville created the Block 59 Business District and its 1% sales tax on March 21, 2023.
• The City Council approved the $1.85 million amendment on June 16, 2026, contingent on a signed lease.
• Tenants along Aurora Avenue were moving out by September 2026 so the space can be rebuilt.
• IKEA announced the Bolingbrook-to-Naperville move on October 6, 2026.
• The Naperville store is slated to open, and the Bolingbrook store to close, in late 2027.
• The Village of Bolingbrook wants to talk with IKEA about the future of the 27-acre Bolingbrook site.

Getting to Block 59

Block 59 is on Route 59 south of I-88, and a Metra station is close by.

• Block 59’s address is 404 S. Route 59, Naperville, and the IKEA space is in the adjoining Westridge Court center along Aurora Avenue.
• Drivers on I-88 can take the Route 59 exit and head south to Aurora Avenue.
• Metra’s BNSF Line stops at the Route 59 station, 1090 N. Route 59 in Aurora, about a mile north of Block 59.
• The Naperville site is about eight miles from the Bolingbrook store, according to IKEA.

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