Retail price of midgrade gasoline in Chicago (USD/gal) - United States - EIA - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail gasoline prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Chicago, the retail price of midgrade gasoline was 5.04 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, versus 4.93 on 7 September. This marks a gain of 2.23 percent.
Sample. There are 1,370 records in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time range going from June 2000 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: the retail price was equal on average to 3.13 USD/gal; it recorded a maximum of 6.21 on 13 June 2022; it reached a trough of 1.17 on 11 February 2002.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 4.832 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4.933 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5.045 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of midgrade gasoline in Chicago |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | USD/gal |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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