Retail price of premium 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 premium gasoline stood at 5.67 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, compared to 5.61 on 7 September. This represents a rise of 1.07 percent.
Sample. There are 1,660 observations in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The time period covered by the series extends from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the retail price registered a minimum of 0.98 USD/gal on 8 March 1999; it recorded its maximum of 6.61 on 13 June 2022; it had a mean value of 3.00.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 5.50000 |
| 2026-09-07 | 5.60700 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5.67100 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of premium 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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