Weekly Chicagoland used car listing reports
Each weekly report covers one complete Monday-to-Sunday week in Central Time (America/Chicago) and publishes the following Monday. The figures are computed from the listing events The Used Car Index records each day from Chicagoland dealer websites.
This week so far
Partial week, not a weekly report: Monday, November 2, 2026 through Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 2 days with recorded events. The week ends Sunday, November 8, 2026. Its weekly report publishes Monday, November 9, 2026.
- Dealers observed
- 50
- New listings
- 252
- Price drops
- 803
- Relisted listings
- 21
- Delisted listings
- 383
Weekly reports
- Week of October 26, 2026: 4,776 price drops, 1,358 new, 58 relisted and 1,352 delisted listings at 55 dealers
- Week of October 19, 2026: 4,814 price drops, 1,331 new, 39 relisted and 1,419 delisted listings at 56 dealers
- Week of October 12, 2026: 4,528 price drops, 1,358 new, 36 relisted and 1,176 delisted listings at 58 dealers; 93 listings from the first scan of 4 newly added dealer sites
Methodology
- Prices are dealer asking prices as shown on the dealer website, not transaction prices. Price increases and mileage-only changes are not recorded.
- New means the bot recorded a listing for the first time. When the bot starts watching a dealer website, that dealer's current listings are recorded as new on the first day. Those first-scan listings are shown separately and are not counted as new listings.
- Delisted means the listing was no longer found on the dealer website. A delisted listing is never labeled sold.
- Price drops of 30 percent or more of the previous asking price are listed in their own table and are left out of the top 10, the price drop counts, the medians, the by-make and by-model figures and the headline sentences, because dealer sites sometimes show a placeholder price first, as with three listings at two dealer websites first recorded at exactly $100,411 (as of October 16, 2026).
- Coverage is the dealer websites the bot watches, not the whole market. History starts at launch: the first listing events were recorded on October 7, 2026.