We All Scream for Ice Cream—And Western Springs Has the Numbers to Prove It

It would appear Western Springs residents love their ice cream significantly 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.

Western Springs exceeded the national average of 100 with an index of 191, nearly doubling it. (Perhaps is just that delicious? Or is it the frozen foods section at ?)

That blows away La Grange (134), La Grange Park (125), Westchester (120) and even Oak Brook (154), but falls slightly short of Hinsdale (201.) But nothing can compare with the wealthy and apparently ice-cream ravenous folks in Cook County's Kenilworth, who put up a thunderous score of 275.

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.

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 .
• St. Charles, MO Patch shares how to . 
• 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.