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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin area advanced 1.2 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that energy prices rose 2.4 percent while food prices were 1.1 percent higher in January. The all items less food and energy index was up 1.1 percent over the month. Within the all items less food and energy category, prices were higher for shelter, apparel, and recreation. (See table 1 and table 2.) (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect seasonal influences.)
The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin area all items CPI-U advanced 4.3 percent for the 12 months ending in January. The index for all items less food and energy increased 4.8 percent over the year. Food prices rose 1.7 percent. Energy prices increased 2.7 percent.
Food prices advanced 1.1 percent for the month of January. Prices for food at home (groceries) advanced 1.8 percent, and prices for food away from home (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) were unchanged for the same period. Within the food at home group, categories experiencing increases included spices, seasonings, condiments, sauces; carbonated drinks; and eggs.
Food prices rose 1.7 percent over the year. The food at home index rose 1.2 percent as three of the six major grocery store food group indexes advanced over the year. Increasing indexes included nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials (+5.1 percent); meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (+2.1 percent); and dairy and related products (+3.4 percent). Prices for food away from home increased 2.6 percent.
EnergyThe energy index increased 2.4 percent over the month and was up 2.7 percent over the year.
All items less food and energyThe index for all items less food and energy rose 1.1 percent in January. Among the index’s components, prices were higher for shelter (+0.7 percent) and apparel (+5.0 percent).
The index for all items less food and energy increased 4.8 percent over the year. Categories increasing over the year included shelter (+6.1 percent) and medical care (+3.9 percent).
The February 2025 Consumer Price Index for the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin area is scheduled to be released on March 12, 2025.
In accordance with annual practice, relative importance weights have been updated and are available online in the CPI Supplemental Table of Contents.
Effective with the January 2025 data release, several indexes and average price series were discontinued. More information is available on the CPI discontinued series page. Direct any inquiries to the CPI office using one of the CPI contact information options listed online.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Consumer Price Index for Chicago is published monthly. The set of components and sub-aggregates published for regional and metropolitan indexes is more limited than at the U.S. city average level; these indexes are byproducts of the national CPI program. Each local index has a much smaller sample size than the national or regional indexes and is, therefore, subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error. As a result, local-area indexes are more volatile than the national or regional indexes. In addition, local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. NOTE: Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices between cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.
Percent changes for all-items data previously found in Table A of this release can be accessed in Chart 1 for this release and its attendant data table. A full all-items data series history for the original index value and for 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month percent changes can be accessed via BLS data query tools. A direct link to the all-items series is provided in Table 1 of this release under historical data.
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Expenditure category |
Indexes | Percent change from: | |||||
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Historical data |
Nov. 2024 |
Dec. 2024 |
Jan. 2025 |
Jan. 2024 |
Nov. 2024 |
Dec. 2024 |
|
All items |
294.542 | 294.757 | 298.213 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | |
All items (1967=100) |
879.970 | 880.612 | 890.936 | - | - | - | |
Food and beverages |
325.673 | 323.117 | 326.737 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
Food |
326.037 | 323.521 | 327.091 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
Food at home |
301.782 | 298.089 | 303.419 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 1.8 | |
Cereals and bakery products |
338.165 | 340.052 | 337.898 | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.6 | |
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs |
323.697 | 316.802 | 325.509 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 2.7 | |
Dairy and related products |
269.487 | 264.291 | 270.726 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 2.4 | |
Fruits and vegetables |
358.858 | 362.401 | 361.892 | -0.5 | 0.8 | -0.1 | |
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1) |
264.984 | 260.605 | 272.688 | 5.1 | 2.9 | 4.6 | |
Other food at home |
249.374 | 243.475 | 248.974 | -0.2 | -0.2 | 2.3 | |
Food away from home |
351.685 | 351.389 | 351.352 | 2.6 | -0.1 | 0.0 | |
Alcoholic beverages |
319.334 | 316.265 | 320.845 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 1.4 | |
Housing |
314.819 | 316.611 | 320.229 | 5.2 | 1.7 | 1.1 | |
Shelter |
405.476 | 407.583 | 410.474 | 6.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | |
Rent of primary residence |
433.196 | 434.614 | 436.540 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2) |
420.176 | 422.415 | 424.840 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | |
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2) |
420.176 | 422.415 | 424.840 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | |
Household furnishings and operations |
102.611 | 103.251 | 105.608 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 2.3 | |
Apparel |
89.170 | 90.705 | 95.272 | 4.8 | 6.8 | 5.0 | |
Transportation |
243.384 | 241.053 | 244.749 | 6.3 | 0.6 | 1.5 | |
Private transportation |
245.407 | 244.783 | 246.859 | 6.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |
New and used motor vehicles(3) |
117.424 | 116.834 | 117.699 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
New vehicles(1) |
213.517 | 213.165 | 213.847 | -0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
Used cars and trucks(1) |
350.973 | 352.019 | 353.121 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
Motor fuel |
287.120 | 288.419 | 288.933 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
Gasoline (all types) |
285.248 | 286.604 | 287.127 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
Gasoline, unleaded regular(4) |
273.702 | 275.037 | 275.618 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
328.984 | 329.983 | 329.641 | 4.3 | 0.2 | -0.1 | ||
Gasoline, unleaded premium(4) |
325.049 | 326.302 | 326.128 | 4.3 | 0.3 | -0.1 | |
Medical care |
570.463 | 571.876 | 573.568 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
Recreation(3) |
135.233 | 135.545 | 137.148 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.2 | |
Education and communication(3) |
143.982 | 143.698 | 144.350 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1) |
1,334.699 | 1,334.699 | 1,333.955 | 4.7 | -0.1 | -0.1 | |
Other goods and services |
511.684 | 508.644 | 511.853 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
Footnotes |
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- Data not available. |
Special aggregate index |
Indexes | Percent change from: | |||||
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Historical data |
Nov. 2024 |
Dec. 2024 |
Jan. 2025 |
Jan. 2024 |
Nov. 2024 |
Dec. 2024 |
|
All items |
294.542 | 294.757 | 298.213 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | |
Food |
326.037 | 323.521 | 327.091 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
Energy |
230.083 | 232.080 | 237.722 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 2.4 | |
All items less food and energy |
299.485 | 299.960 | 303.262 | 4.8 | 1.3 | 1.1 | |
All items less energy |
302.818 | 302.886 | 306.221 | 4.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | |
All items less medical care |
282.940 | 283.099 | 286.694 | 4.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |
All items less shelter |
256.860 | 256.405 | 260.005 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | |
Commodities |
199.311 | 198.487 | 201.217 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.4 | |
Commodities less food |
146.550 | 146.322 | 148.603 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 | |
Commodities less food & beverages |
140.737 | 140.581 | 142.779 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.6 | |
Durables |
92.881 | 92.334 | 93.322 | -3.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | |
Nondurables |
258.239 | 257.275 | 261.085 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.5 | |
Nondurables less food |
200.771 | 200.878 | 204.743 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.9 | |
Nondurables less food & beverages |
192.849 | 193.116 | 196.890 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.0 | |
Services |
384.910 | 386.109 | 390.212 | 6.0 | 1.4 | 1.1 | |
Services less rent of shelter(1) |
381.857 | 382.168 | 387.595 | 5.8 | 1.5 | 1.4 | |
Services less medical care services |
369.625 | 370.743 | 374.995 | 6.1 | 1.5 | 1.1 | |
- Data not available. |
Last Modified Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025