Rack market

Des Plaines, IL

#76 of 422 U.S. rack markets by terminals

OPIS rack city 293 Gasoline & diesel Biodiesel Ethanol

terminals: 4
pipeline systems delivering: 1
refineries confirmed: 0
more per research or by route: 0
people in the trade area: 1,441,847
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 1,178,046
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 295,036

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Exxonmobil Oil Corporation - Des Plaines Terminal	T-36-IL-3311	Arlington Heights, IL	West Shore Pipeline
Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC - O'hare Terminal	T-36-IL-3301	Elk Grove Village, IL	West Shore Pipeline
Shell Oil Products US - Des Plaines Terminal	T-36-IL-3316	Arlington Heights, IL	West Shore Pipeline
West Shore Pipeline Company - Arlington Heights	T-72-IL-0003	Arlington Heights, IL	West Shore Pipeline

Pipelines delivering to this market

Each system with a tariff delivery point at one of this market’s terminals, and how many running refineries can ship on it to here.

Pipeline system	Terminals here	Delivery points	Refineries confirmed	All reachable
West Shore Pipeline	4	1	0	0

Refineries that can supply this market

No refinery has a published pipeline route here on file.

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 1,441,847
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #70
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 1,178,046
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 295,036
counties wholly in this market: 0
counties shared with other markets: 6

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
Cook County	IL	16%	821,270	603,046	160,512	5,194,625	16
Lake County	IL	48%	343,269	326,181	72,039	719,339	10
Kane County	IL	26%	135,382	120,005	32,617	525,757	29
McHenry County	IL	25%	80,041	64,812	18,810	317,751	35
Kenosha County	WI	23%	38,221	41,820	7,189	168,448	37
Racine County	WI	12%	23,433	22,007	3,825	198,919	51

Fuel demand is an estimate: each state’s taxed gallons for the year (FHWA) are split among its counties by where the driving happens (EPA county vehicle miles, weighted by how much fuel each vehicle type burns), then shared to markets as above. Every state adds back to its FHWA total. Gasoline includes the ethanol blended into it; diesel is FHWA’s special fuels. Expect diesel to be least reliable along long-haul corridors, where trucks buy fuel in one county and burn it in another. Population: U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

How good is it? Checked in October 2026 against the county retail sales Iowa and California publish: for gasoline, about 3–5% of gallons landed in the wrong rack market and a typical market was within 5–6%. For diesel, 14–21% landed in the wrong market and a typical market was 30–45% off, with truck-stop corridors such as Bakersfield and Stockton under-counted. Treat gasoline as a working estimate and diesel as a rough guide.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

What it costs to move a gallon here from each pipeline origin at filed tariff rates: line-haul, the cost of financing the product on the way and in the tank, pipeline loss, and terminaling. It is a cost at filed rates, not a market price: add it to the origin spot price for a delivered cost. Lines marked "estimate" are placeholders until the pipeline or terminal figure is on file; in the routes table, * marks a figure taken from the tariff.

Gasoline: product adder

¢/gal · lowest adder: 3.04
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 0.81
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.40
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.33
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 7.5

Lowest route: from Des Plaines on West Shore Pipeline to O'Hare Terminal (FERC No. 71.61.0 item Table of Rates).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	0.815	published	West Shore Pipeline FERC No. 71.61.0 item Table of Rates: Des Plaines (Cook County), IL → O'Hare Terminal (Cook County), IL, 34.21 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.398	calculated	$3.260000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 7.543 days (0.043 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 4 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (general estimate)
Pipeline loss	0.326	estimate	flat estimate $0.0033/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	1.500	estimate	Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder	3.038		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Diesel: product adder

¢/gal · lowest adder: 3.36
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 0.81
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.57
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.47
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 7.5

Lowest route: from Des Plaines on West Shore Pipeline to O'Hare Terminal (FERC No. 71.61.0 item Table of Rates).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	0.815	published	West Shore Pipeline FERC No. 71.61.0 item Table of Rates: Des Plaines (Cook County), IL → O'Hare Terminal (Cook County), IL, 34.21 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.573	calculated	$4.700000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 7.543 days (0.043 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 4 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (general estimate)
Pipeline loss	0.470	estimate	flat estimate $0.0047/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	1.500	estimate	Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder	3.358		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Inputs and assumptions behind these figures

Product value (for carrying cost and loss only): the prior day's spot price. Gasoline: OilPriceAPI GASOLINE_RBOB_USD, 2026-10-07. Diesel: OilPriceAPI HEATING_OIL_USD, 2026-10-07. These are the New York Harbor futures benchmarks, not a Gulf Coast price.
Interest rate: SOFR 3.90% (2026-10-06) + 2.0 points.
Transit (estimate): straight-line miles between the tariff origin and delivery point × 1.15, at 4.0 mph unless the pipeline has its own figure.
Days financed (estimate): transit, plus half a 5-day shipping cycle waiting to lift, plus 5 days of stock at the terminal.
Pipeline loss: the charge or volume deduction the tariff states, where it states one (marked *; a deduction is costed at the product value above). Otherwise an estimate of 0.10% of product value per pipeline, two for a joint rate; that includes pipelines that share out actual losses without publishing a figure.
Terminaling: the carrier's terminal charge where its tariff states one (marked *), otherwise a flat 1.5¢/gal estimate.
Rates used: each pipeline's ordinary filed rate. Committed, volume-tier, discount and bid rates are left out, as are conditional fees (shown on each pipeline page), additives, taxes and the value of line space.
Assumption set in force from 2026-10-01; review by 2027-01-01.

Published line-haul rates, all products and rate types

¢/gal · cheapest gasoline · from Des Plaines on West Shore Pipeline: 0.82
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from Des Plaines on West Shore Pipeline: 0.82
¢/gal · cheapest jet fuel · from Des Plaines on West Shore Pipeline: 0.82

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Product	¢/bbl	¢/gal	Refineries at the origin	Tariff
Des Plaines (Cook County), IL	West Shore Pipeline	O'Hare Terminal (Cook County), IL per research	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	34.21	0.82		FERC No. 71.61.0 item Table of Rates
Des Plaines (Cook County), IL	West Shore Pipeline	O'Hare Terminal (Cook County), IL per research	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	34.21	0.82		ILL. C.C. No. 115 item Table of Rates

Supply resilience

pipeline supply: One pipeline
pipeline systems delivering: 1
terminals on two or more pipelines: 0
terminals with no pipeline tariff: 0

One pipeline system delivers here: West Shore Pipeline. An outage on it leaves the market to truck, rail or water.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system	Terminals it reaches here	With no other pipeline	Which
West Shore Pipeline	4	4	Exxonmobil Oil Corporation - Des Plaines Terminal; Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC - O'hare Terminal; Shell Oil Products US - Des Plaines Terminal; West Shore Pipeline Company - Arlington Heights

Counts pipeline systems with a tariff delivery point here, not capacity, storage or contracts. A system with two lines into the market still counts once, and a terminal with one pipeline may also receive by truck, rail or water. For a refinery or pipeline outage across every market it touches, open that facility’s page.

Delivered ethanol cost

¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · lowest in the market: -4.34
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest: -4.27

An estimate for each terminal: the cheapest of published rail rates and trucking from the nearest plants, plus basis, transload, terminaling and carrying cost. Each terminal page shows the build-up line by line.

Terminal	¢/gal over Chicago	By	From	Miles
West Shore Pipeline Company - Arlington Heights	-4.34	truck	ADM Clinton IA (Clinton, IA)	140
Exxonmobil Oil Corporation - Des Plaines Terminal	-4.32	truck	ADM Clinton IA (Clinton, IA)	141
Shell Oil Products US - Des Plaines Terminal	-4.30	truck	ADM Clinton IA (Clinton, IA)	141
Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC - O'hare Terminal	-4.27	truck	ADM Clinton IA (Clinton, IA)	142

Nearby rack markets

Rack markets within 75 miles (straight line): where a buyer here could also lift.

Rack market	Miles	Terminals	Pipelines
Mt. Prospect, IL	4	8	1
Forestview, IL	18	3	2
Argo, IL	20	2	1
Chicago, IL	21	2	1
Lemont, IL	28	1	—
Blue Island, IL	29	2	2
Hammond, IN	37	9	3
Lockport, IL	38	2	1
Rockford, IL	65	5	1
Kankakee, IL	67	3	—

Around the market

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Pump prices nearby

$4.109 Regular gasoline · PADD 2 · -4.2% on the week · +40.3% on the year

$6.286 Diesel · PADD 2 · -3.7% on the week · +68.5% on the year

EIA weekly retail survey, week of 2026-10-05: the closest area EIA reports, not this market alone.

Fuel taxes · Illinois

90.1 ¢/gal Gasoline · state 71.7¢ + federal 18.4¢ (excise 49.6¢, other state taxes and fees 22.1¢)

103.6 ¢/gal Diesel · state 79.2¢ + federal 24.4¢ (excise 57.1¢, other state taxes and fees 22.1¢)

Taxed at: distributor / wholesaler
Figured on billed gallons
State sales tax on motor fuel (pre-paid sales tax): 6.25%; pre-paid sales tax rate adjusted every six months (January and July)
An additional sales tax amount may be charged at the local level and county level (no amounts given).
Each July 1 the rate may increase by the percentage increase in the CPI-U for the 12 months ending in March.

Rates: EIA, in effect July 1, 2026, without county or city taxes. Rules: Federation of Tax Administrators, September 2025. Not tax advice: check the state agency before relying on a rate.

Terminal operators

4 operators; the largest, ExxonMobil, runs 25% of the terminals.

ExxonMobil 1 terminal · 25%
Kinder Morgan 1 terminal · 25%
Shell 1 terminal · 25%
West Shore Pipeline 1 terminal · 25%

Concentration index 2,500 (10,000 = one operator). By terminal count as named on the IRS list, not volume; affiliates under other names may be counted apart.

In the state

19 rack markets in IL.

Source

Rack market list and codes from OPIS; terminals from the IRS Terminal Control Number list; pipeline reach from published FERC and state tariffs; refinery links from tariffs and sourced research. Rack prices and suppliers posting at each terminal are not shown yet.

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.