Led by 16-year old George Li and 13-year old David Peng, Illinois boasts seven junior USCF Masters as of the November 2016 published ratings. 12-year old Aydin Turgut, along with Jacob Furfine, Alex Bian, Spencer Lehmann, Jonathan Hrach fill out the magnificent seven.
Seven is also the magic number for 13-year olds and 16-year olds in the top 100 (whereas one might expect only four based on population). Our class of 15-year olds goes one better with eight, led by Furfine.
New names in the top 100's this month include 7-year olds Michael Li and Liam Murray who have both broken the 1000-mark.
On the cusp of hitting the 2200 mark are Vincent Do at 2198, Anshul Adve with 2194 (previously above 2200 last month), Matthew Stevens at 2181, and Nicholas Bartochowski at 2172.
| Age 7 & Under | |||
| 5 | Emrikian, Aren C (15766785) -- Age 6 | 1644 | |
| 84 | Li, Michael (15752152) | 1047 | |
| 96 | Murray, Liam (16005354) | 1002 | |
| Age 8 | |||
| 4 | Mardov, Dimitar (15205818) | 1854 | |
| 8 | Yong, David (15273720) | 1746 | |
| 16 | Zhao, Alex (15335115) | 1623 | |
| 47 | Chen, David Baokang (15324980) | 1437 | |
| 77 | Elgat, Adam (15552450) | 1317 | |
| Age 9 | |||
| 7 | Xu, Arthur (14968896) | 1942 | |
| 71 | Wang, William (15270976) | 1519 | |
| Age 10 | |||
| None from Illinois at this time | |||
| Age 11 | |||
| 36 | Zheng, Peter (15075977) | 1891 | |
| 38 | Rao, Patrick (14855075) | 1884 | |
| 43 | Bareket, Adam (14949325) | 1849 | |
| Age 12 | |||
| 6 | Turgut, Aydin (14284734) | 2204 | |
| 40 | Acharya, Siddharth (15165476) | 1925 | |
| 63 | Jay, Neel (14803101) | 1867 | |
| 80 | Gong, Brian Hope (14663750) | 1822 | |
| 83 | Hoesley, Aria (14631046) | 1811 | |
| Age 13 | |||
| 3 | Peng, David Tianjian (14195454) | 2374 | |
| 22 | Wang, Ricky (14403974) | 2089 | |
| 24 | Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163) | 2087 | |
| 57 | Bareket, Tom (14949310) | 1955 | |
| 65 | Zhang, Edward (14685367) | 1915 | |
| 75 | Carey, Aidan M (14949435) | 1890 | |
| 87 | Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) | 1852 | |
| Age 14 | |||
| 22 | Do, Vincent (13666696) | 2198 | |
| 57 | Li, Marissa (14468490) | 2007 | |
| 96 | Rai, Tej (14712050) | 1897 | |
| Age 15 | |||
| 9 | Furfine, Jacob (13089315) | 2295 | |
| 25 | Stevens, Matthew James (13788934) | 2181 | |
| 31 | Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215) | 2143 | |
| 48 | Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221) | 2082 | |
| 51 | Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428) | 2066 | |
| 60 | Hao, Hanson (13858968) | 2042 | |
| 75 | Liu, Miranda (14042343) | 2010 | |
| 87 | Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152) | 1975 | |
| Age 16 | |||
| 10 | Li, Zhaozhi (13646954) | 2387 | |
| 21 | Bian, Alex (13257335) | 2286 | |
| 37 | Adve, Anshul (13296020) | 2194 | |
| 43 | Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472) | 2172 | |
| 51 | Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325) | 2129 | |
| 64 | Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367) | 2079 | |
| 81 | Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411) | 2026 | |
| Age 17 | |||
| 24 | Lehmann, Spencer (13457744) | 2223 | |
| 66 | Denby, Caleb Sean (14361200) | 2021 | |
| 68 | Holecek, Zachary (12933315) | 2014 | |
| Age 18 | |||
| 21 | Hrach, Jonathan Matthew (14094872) | 2204 | |
| 57 | Chen, John (13728578) | 2045 | |
| 69 | Holzmueller, Nathan (13899472) | 2004 | |
| 78 | Parker-Turner, Phillip (12954448) | 1965 | |