Gas prices that soared around Illinois in the past week should gradually decline over the course of the next several weeks, according to a website that tracks the subject.
Gasbuddy.com attributes last week’s price spike to a pipeline spill in Wisconsin last month that affected Midwestern oil supplies.
The price of regular unleaded jumped to nearly four-dollars a gallon through much of downstate Illinois, and peaked at an average of $4.25 a gallon in Chicago.