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Rockford area gas prices are currently hovering around $2.19 per gallon, which is 5 cents lower than last week when gas prices only dropped about a penny.

According to AAA-Chicago, the nationwide average for a gallon of gasoline reached $1.80 on Wednesday.

We'd all probably be a lot happier about it if we actually had someplace to go with that full tank of cheap gas.

We're down over 7 cents per gallon in the last week, and experts seem to think this trend may continue.

Gas Buddy says in the past month here in Rockford, gas prices have fallen over 30 cents per gallon.