Entity

Illinois

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 31 coverage verticals, including Economic Development, Auto and Intelligence.

As of 3 Nov 2026Last evidence 3 Nov 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

  • Rep. Miller to Announce Major Water Infrastructure Investment Benefiting Seven Illinois Counties

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Election: democratic party & illinois

    Registered event · reported 5 Aug 2026 to 25 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

All 4 events and claims involving Illinois

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 53 mentions on 3 Nov 2026, against 44 on 13 Oct 2026 (+20%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 2 Nov 2026 (8 changes recorded since 22 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 2 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

1,620 documents · 343 publishers · 2% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 3 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.023: about 98% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 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.

TexasMichiganOhioAIIowaMissouriPennsylvaniaFloridaTrump
  • Texas · 403 shared documents
  • Michigan · 301 shared documents
  • Ohio · 298 shared documents
  • AI · 287 shared documents
  • Iowa · 285 shared documents
  • Missouri · 277 shared documents
  • Indiana · 273 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Pennsylvania · 268 shared documents
  • Florida · 243 shared documents
  • Trump · 241 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 53 mentions on 3 Nov 2026 with 44 on 13 Oct 2026 (+20%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions -26% from 19 Sept 2026 to 3 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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  "label": "Illinois",
  "asOf": "2026-11-03",
  "mentions": 30,
  "outlets": 23,
  "domains": 31,
  "node": {
    "id": "sb:e/56779c49bf01387807b9dec1",
    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/56779c49bf01387807b9dec1",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-11-03T15:51:23.084798+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "history": {
    "since": "2026-10-22T13:13:28.924490+00:00",
    "changes": 8
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "30 mentions across 31 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "4 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 4,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "31 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 26 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

  • Rep. Miller to Announce Major Water Infrastructure Investment Benefiting Seven Illinois Counties

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Election: democratic party & illinois

    Registered event · reported 5 Aug 2026 to 25 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from Illinois

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Illinois

Entity.

Evidence
1,620 documents · 343 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 3 Nov 2026
Measured
2% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
3 Nov 2026
14 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • 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 (1)

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.

2 more headlines 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.

  • 17.5% Yes

    “Will total votes cast in the 2026 midterm election for Senator from Illinois be between 4,500,000 and 4,750,000?”

    Polymarket · priced 3 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

  • 2 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 30 Oct 2026

  • 2 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 30 Oct 2026

  • 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

8 changes recorded since 22 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 3 Nov 2026.