Entity

Illinois

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 9 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Weather Climate and Water.

As of 15 Oct 2026Last evidence 14 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • FEMA denies Illinois’ disaster request following summer’s severe storms

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 1 event and claims involving Illinois

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 66 mentions on 15 Oct 2026, against 6 on 24 Sept 2026 (+1000%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 11 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 5 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 14 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,142 documents · 274 publishers · 2% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 14 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.019: about 98% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Illinois

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

TexasMichiganIowaOhioIndianaPennsylvaniaAIArizona
  • Texas · 287 shared documents
  • Michigan · 223 shared documents
  • Missouri · 221 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iowa · 220 shared documents
  • Ohio · 214 shared documents
  • Indiana · 213 shared documents
  • Pennsylvania · 208 shared documents
  • AI · 195 shared documents
  • Jersey · 190 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Arizona · 174 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 66 mentions on 15 Oct 2026 with 6 on 24 Sept 2026 (+1000%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +2100% from 5 Sept 2026 to 15 Oct 2026, between 3 and 72 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Illinois, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Illinois yet. Ask about Illinois

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/56779c49bf01387807b9dec1 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name illinois.

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  "outlets": 52,
  "domains": 9,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-15T23:27:28.408719+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "history": {
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    "changes": 4
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  "whereFrom": {
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    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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          "count": 6,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "9 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 9,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 64 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Illinois

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • FEMA denies Illinois’ disaster request following summer’s severe storms

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

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Illinois

Entity.

Evidence
1,142 documents · 274 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Apr 2026, last seen 14 Oct 2026
Measured
2% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
15 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Illinois, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 11 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 29 Sept 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 29 Sept 2026

4 changes recorded since 5 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 15 Oct 2026.