44 Illinois girls have managed to earn spots on this month's top 100 lists compiled by US Chess. Unfortunately, Illinois is without a qualifying 18 year old, but managed to have at least two active players on each of the other 11 lists.
Marissa Li is now within 25 points of joining Miranda Liu in the rarefied air of female Experts (rated 2000 or higher).
The lists are based on ratings achieved and processed by the third Wednesday of the prior month, in this case July 20, 2016.
Illinois now has three female 15 year-olds above 1500... and a trio of 16 year-olds above 1600!
Aria Hoesley has surpassed the magic 1800 mark and is now considered a Class A player.
Linda Pham, fresh off the World Open in Philadelphia, is now an Illinois-registrant, heading up our list of 7-and-unders.
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| Age 7 and Under | |||
| 15 | Pham, Linda (15464538) | 943 | |
| 94 | Doddi, Sukhi Manoj (15850503) [Age 6] | 439 | |
| 97 | Burras, Theresa (15597578) | 430 | |
| Age 8 | |||
| 37 | Liu, Catherine (15277304) | 864 | |
| 54 | Salian, Nisha (15767306) | 768 | |
| 56 | Raj, Ria (15844590) | 761 | |
| 66 | Lin, Kate Ting (15637932) | 713 | |
| 71 | Swan, Josephine (15352778) | 690 | |
| 71 | Yasumoto, Aya Rose (15406122) | 690 | |
| 76 | Hong, Sophie (15947555) | 678 | |
| Age 9 | |||
| 77 | Adusumalli, Saanvi (15412194) | 855 | |
| 82 | Maheswaran, Sahitya (15493672) | 831 | |
| Age 10 | |||
| 24 | Wisniowski, Natalie (15702390) | 1333 | |
| 39 | Fan, Alice (14935236) | 1153 | |
| 99 | Wong, Megan E (14855164) | 866 | |
| Age 11 | |||
| 44 | Rodriguez, Layla (15360516) | 1247 | |
| 54 | Nadkarni, Anusha (14789160) | 1180 | |
| 69 | Lin, Sarah May (15376582) | 1113 | |
| 88 | Geiersbach, Annika (14867152) | 1047 | |
| Age 12 | |||
| 12 | Hoesley, Aria (14631046) | 1808 | |
| 35 | Yan, Ashley Mei (14957435) | 1475 | |
| 43 | Frieden, Nadia (14748442) | 1353 | |
| 75 | Kothari, Devanshi (14707882) | 1101 | |
| 84 | Cai, Sophia (14451751) | 1056 | |
| Age 13 | |||
| 6 | Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) | 1921 | |
| 50 | Shklover, Diana (14672010) | 1317 | |
| 59 | Grandy, Sarah Ruth (14279452) | 1246 | |
| 100 | Carlson, Amanda R (13487477) | 946 | |
| Age 14 | |||
| 6 | Liu, Miranda (14042343) | 2016 | |
| 7 | Li, Marissa (14468490) | 1975 | |
| 62 | Peterson, Elizabeth (14159320) | 1109 | |
| 64 | Tang, Zhengxin-Cindy (15491716) | 1090 | |
| 87 | Thadani, Lavina (14686878) | 861 | |
| Age 15 | |||
| 24 | Wang, Emma K (13797242) | 1555 | |
| 24 | Thatte, Shvetali V (13881457) | 1555 | |
| 27 | Mcclanahan, Emily (13661808) | 1538 | |
| 43 | Zhang, Christine (14784748) | 1370 | |
| Age 16 | |||
| 14 | Provine, Shayna (14137968) | 1785 | |
| 20 | Parent, Cassie (13591356) | 1685 | |
| 25 | Simos, Bethany (13520005) | 1646 | |
| 36 | Gani, Isha (15219798) | 1459 | |
| Age 17 | |||
| 45 | Ross, Maya (15690023) | 1063 | |
| 49 | Baker, Bailey (15300983) | 968 | |
| 62 | Roberson, Sydney (15410066) | 766 | |