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Illinois · auto August 2026 edition Captured Jul 14–16 Next refresh Aug 1 19 searches
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Car insurance in Illinois: who ranks, and who gets cited

Allstate leads the organic results in Illinois. Liberty Mutual is cited most in AI answers. They are different brands, which is true in most geographies we measure. An AI Overview appeared on 73.7% of the 19 searches tracked here, citing an average of 6.1 sources.

Discipline 01 · Best insurance SEO Allstate Organic visibility 100 / 100
Discipline 02 · Best insurance GEO Liberty Mutual Cited in 24.1% of carrier citations
Discipline 03 · Best local SEO No local pack

Organic visibility

Indexed to the Illinois leader
Organic visibility by carrier in Illinois, auto insurance, August 2026
#CarrierVisibility index
01 Allstate 100
02 Progressive 94.5
03 GEICO 72.1
04 AAA 45.9
05 Liberty Mutual 40.9
06 The General 16.3
07 State Farm 15.5
08 Mercury Insurance 14.4
09 Nationwide 13.6
10 SafeAuto 8.1

AI citation share

Share of carrier citations
Share of AI Overview citations by carrier in Illinois, auto insurance, August 2026
#CarrierShare of carrier citations
01 Liberty Mutual 24.1%
02 Progressive 20.7%
03 Allstate 13.8%
04 GEICO 13.8%
05 Farmers 6.9%
06 State Farm 6.9%
07 Travelers 6.9%
08 Lemonade 3.4%
09 The General 3.4%

Who Google cites

All sources, not only carriers
Types of source cited in AI Overviews in Illinois, auto insurance, August 2026
#Source typeShare of citations
01 carrier 33.7%
02 aggregator 30.2%
03 publisher 18.6%
04 forum 11.6%
05 law_firm 3.5%
06 agency 2.3%

Named in the answer

Mentions, not citations
Carriers named in AI Overview text in Illinois, auto insurance, August 2026
#CarrierShare of mentions
01 GEICO 24.4%
02 State Farm 14.6%
03 Progressive 14.6%
04 Travelers 12.2%
05 Allstate 9.8%
06 USAA 4.9%
07 Farmers 4.9%
08 Nationwide 4.9%
09 Liberty Mutual 4.9%
10 Amica 2.4%

Being described in the answer and being cited as a source are different things.

What these searches return

By intent, 19 searches
AI Overview presence by search intent in Illinois, August 2026
Search intentReturned an AI Overview
cost 100%
informational 100%
quote 100%
comparison 75%
head 0%
near me 0%
Illinois · Auto · 19 captures · Jul 2026

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What is on this page position-weighted organic visibility indexed to the Illinois leader, share of sources cited in AI Overviews, share of answers naming a carrier, and Local Pack presence. Same 19 searches for all four, captured July 2026.

Never combined the disciplines are reported separately and are not summed. A blended score would hide the only finding that matters, which is where they disagree.

Coverage Google AI Overviews only. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude are separate surfaces and are not measured.