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 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

Nothing reported: the record holds no registered event and no claim that names this.

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 48 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 7 on 26 Sept 2026 (+586%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 11 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,206 documents · 287 publishers · 2% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.022: 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 · 311 shared documents
  • Missouri · 231 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Michigan · 231 shared documents
  • Iowa · 224 shared documents
  • Ohio · 224 shared documents
  • Indiana · 217 shared documents
  • Pennsylvania · 215 shared documents
  • AI · 207 shared documents
  • Jersey · 200 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Arizona · 181 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 48 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 7 on 26 Sept 2026 (+586%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +1500% from 5 Sept 2026 to 17 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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  "label": "Illinois",
  "asOf": "2026-10-17",
  "mentions": 73,
  "outlets": 54,
  "domains": 9,
  "node": {
    "id": "sb:e/56779c49bf01387807b9dec1",
    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/56779c49bf01387807b9dec1",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-17T17:29:52.650730+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "history": {
    "since": "2026-10-07T13:21:22.920897+00:00",
    "changes": 4
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "73 mentions across 9 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "9 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 9,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 67 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

Nothing reported: the record holds no registered event and no claim that names this.

Walk the record from Illinois

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Illinois

Entity.

Evidence
1,206 documents · 287 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 17 Oct 2026
Measured
2% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
10 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (0)

none on file at this cutoff

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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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

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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 7 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 17 Oct 2026.