Entity

Illinois

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 39 coverage verticals, including Aging Longevity, AI for Small Business and AI Policy.

As of 1 Nov 2026Last evidence 31 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • a16z, DeFi Education Fund and Uniswap Challenge Illinois Crypto Tax Rules

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Pope Leo requested an absentee ballot in Illinois to vote in the midterms

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 2 events and claims involving Illinois

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 64 mentions on 1 Nov 2026, against 60 on 11 Oct 2026 (+7%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 30 Oct 2026 (6 changes recorded since 20 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 31 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,585 documents · 334 publishers · 2% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 31 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.023: about 98% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 5 receipts 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.

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Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 64 mentions on 1 Nov 2026 with 60 on 11 Oct 2026 (+7%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +19% from 17 Sept 2026 to 1 Nov 2026, between 6 and 81 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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  "asOf": "2026-11-01",
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  "domains": 39,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-11-01T18:49:29.579716+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "steady",
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    "changes": 6
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "64 mentions across 39 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "5 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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          "count": 5,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "39 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 59 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.

  • a16z, DeFi Education Fund and Uniswap Challenge Illinois Crypto Tax Rules

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Pope Leo requested an absentee ballot in Illinois to vote in the midterms

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Illinois

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Illinois

Entity.

Evidence
1,585 documents · 334 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 31 Oct 2026
Measured
2% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
1 Nov 2026
12 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

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.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about Illinois

Markets whose question is about Illinois or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Illinois and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

  • 23% Yes

    “Will the Democratic Party candidate win the 2026 Illinois Senate election by 25%-30%?”

    Polymarket · priced 1 Nov 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “illinois” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 30 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 26 Oct 2026

  • 30 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 26 Oct 2026

  • 26 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 24 Oct 2026

  • 26 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 24 Oct 2026

  • 24 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

  • 24 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

6 changes recorded since 20 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about IllinoisWatch Illinois

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 1 Nov 2026.