Although the landscape may have changed since then, as of the December official ratings supplements, seven Illinois juniors have achieved "Masterhood" eclipsing 2200. 19 have USCF ratings above 2000, considered "Experts".
49 are listed on one of the dozen lists.
David Peng (3rd), Dimitar Mardov (4th) and Aren Emrikian (3rd) are in the top five of their respective ages. (Aren once again is the top 6 year old leapfrogging Rachel Li of Texas -- that age is generally lumped in the "7 & Under" Category.)
George Li (8th), Jacob Furfine (9th), Aydin Turgut (6th), and Arthur Xu (8th) are ranked in the top 10 of their age groups.
| Ages 7 & Under | |||
| 3 | Emrikian, Aren C (15766785) -- Age 6 | 1758 | |
| 57 | Li, Michael (15752152) | 1145 | |
| Age 8 | |||
| 4 | Mardov, Dimitar (15205818) | 1854 | |
| 11 | Yong, David (15273720) | 1723 | |
| 47 | Chen, David Baokang (15324980) | 1433 | |
| 59 | Elgat, Adam (15552450) | 1381 | |
| Age 9 | |||
| 8 | Xu, Arthur (14968896) | 1939 | |
| 35 | Zhao, Alex (15335115) | 1684 | |
| 62 | Wang, William (15270976) | 1581 | |
| 80 | Ramnath, Vrishank (15137342) | 1491 | |
| Age 10 | |||
| None in Illinois at this time | |||
| Age 11 | |||
| 33 | Rao, Patrick (14855075) | 1896 | |
| 35 | Zheng, Peter (15075977) | 1893 | |
| 40 | Bareket, Adam (14949325) | 1874 | |
| Age 12 | |||
| 6 | Turgut, Aydin (14284734) | 2204 | |
| 43 | Acharya, Siddharth (15165476) | 1925 | |
| 76 | Gong, Brian Hope (14663750) | 1848 | |
| 79 | Jay, Neel (14803101) | 1837 | |
| 86 | Hoesley, Aria (14631046) | 1811 | |
| Age 13 | |||
| 3 | Peng, David Tianjian (14195454) | 2374 | |
| 25 | Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163) | 2087 | |
| 31 | Wang, Ricky (14403974) | 2060 | |
| 55 | Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) | 1962 | |
| 57 | Bareket, Tom (14949310) | 1956 | |
| 63 | Zhang, Edward (14685367) | 1915 | |
| 86 | Carey, Aidan M (14949435) | 1845 | |
| Age 14 | |||
| 22 | Do, Vincent (13666696) | 2198 | |
| 47 | Li, Marissa (14468490) | 2047 | |
| Age 15 | |||
| 9 | Furfine, Jacob (13089315) | 2295 | |
| 25 | Stevens, Matthew James (13788934) | 2181 | |
| 33 | Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215) | 2160 | |
| 42 | Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221) | 2104 | |
| 59 | Hao, Hanson (13858968) | 2042 | |
| 78 | Liu, Miranda (14042343) | 2010 | |
| 89 | Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152) | 1975 | |
| Age 16 | |||
| 8 | Li, Zhaozhi (13646954) | 2398 | |
| 21 | Bian, Alex (13257335) | 2286 | |
| 35 | Adve, Anshul (13296020) | 2194 | |
| 43 | Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472) | 2172 | |
| 51 | Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325) | 2129 | |
| 62 | Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367) | 2079 | |
| 69 | Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428) | 2066 | |
| 88 | Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411) | 2026 | |
| Age 17 | |||
| 19 | Lehmann, Spencer (13457744) | 2223 | |
| 57 | Denby, Caleb Sean (14361200) | 2021 | |
| 59 | Holecek, Zachary (12933315) | 2014 | |
| Age 18 | |||
| 26 | Hrach, Jonathan Matthew (14094872) | 2204 | |
| 62 | Chen, John (13728578) | 2045 | |
| 72 | Holzmueller, Nathan (13899472) | 2004 | |
| 78 | Parker-Turner, Phillip (12954448) | 1965 | |