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Business insurance board · August 2026

Illinois

United States
Searches tracked
24
AI Overview rate
79.2%
Sources per answer
7.2
Locator United States

Business insurance in Illinois: who ranks, and who gets cited

The Hartford leads both the organic results and the AI citations in Illinois, which is unusual: it is the less common of the two outcomes. An AI Overview appeared on 79.2% of the 24 searches tracked here, citing an average of 7.2 sources.

Discipline 01 · Best insurance SEO The Hartford Organic visibility 100 / 100
Discipline 02 · Best insurance GEO The Hartford Cited in 25% of carrier citations
Discipline 03 · Best local SEO Lincoln Auto Insurance 30.6% of map slots across 1 metro

Organic visibility

Indexed to the Illinois leader
Organic visibility by carrier in Illinois, commercial insurance, August 2026
#CarrierVisibility index
01 The Hartford 100
02 Progressive Commercial 79.3
03 NEXT Insurance 47.2
04 GEICO 45.3
05 biBERK 19.7
06 Nationwide 19.5
07 Hiscox 15
08 Allstate 13.8
09 Travelers 12.2
10 Chubb 8.8

AI citation share

Share of carrier citations
Share of AI Overview citations by carrier in Illinois, commercial insurance, August 2026
#CarrierShare of carrier citations
01 The Hartford 25%
02 Progressive Commercial 23.8%
03 NEXT Insurance 15%
04 GEICO 8.8%
05 Nationwide 7.5%
06 Hiscox 5%
07 Allstate 3.8%
08 Travelers 3.8%
09 Federated Insurance 2.5%
10 Liberty Mutual 1.2%

Who Google cites

All sources, not only carriers
Types of source cited in AI Overviews in Illinois, commercial insurance, August 2026
#Source typeShare of citations
01 carrier 55.9%
02 forum 14.7%
03 aggregator 7%
04 agency 6.3%
05 publisher 4.9%
06 regulator 4.9%
07 payroll 2.1%
08 unknown 1.4%
09 directory 0.7%
10 financial institution 0.7%
11 law firm 0.7%
12 security vendor 0.7%

Named in the answer

Mentions, not citations
Carriers named in AI Overview text in Illinois, commercial insurance, August 2026
#CarrierShare of mentions
01 Progressive 15.8%
02 The Hartford 15.8%
03 GEICO 14%
04 Progressive Commercial 14%
05 Nationwide 12.3%
06 Hiscox 10.5%
07 NEXT Insurance 8.8%
08 Allstate 3.5%
09 Travelers 3.5%
10 Thimble 1.8%

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

What these searches return

By intent, 24 searches
AI Overview presence by search intent in Illinois, August 2026
Search intentReturned an AI Overview
unclassified 79.2%
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Local pack by metro

1 metro measured in Illinois
Local pack leader in each Illinois metro, August 2026
#MetroLeading business Share of slotsBusinessesRating
01 Chicago Lincoln Auto Insurance 30.6% 8 4.5

Near-me searches are measured per metro, not per state. Each metro has its own board.

Every source the AI cites

40 domains · not only insurers

The citation table above lists insurers only. This one lists everything the answer actually pointed at, which is a different picture: in Illinois, insurers are 55.9% of cited sources and comparison sites are 7%.

Every domain cited in AI answers for Illinois, August 2026
#SourceType Share of citations
01 The Hartford
thehartford.com
Insurers
14%
02 YouTube
youtube.com
Forums
14%
03 Progressive Commercial
progressivecommercial.com
Insurers
13.3%
04 NEXT Insurance
nextinsurance.com
Insurers
8.4%
05 GEICO
geico.com
Insurers
4.9%
06 Nationwide
nationwide.com
Insurers
4.2%
07 Hiscox
hiscox.com
Insurers
2.8%
08 Allstate
allstate.com
Insurers
2.1%
09 US Small Business Administration
sba.gov
Regulators
2.1%
10 Travelers
travelers.com
Insurers
2.1%
11 US News
usnews.com
Publishers
2.1%
12 Federated Insurance
federatedinsurance.com
Insurers
1.4%
13 Forbes Advisor
forbes.com
Publishers
1.4%
14 Insureon
insureon.com
Comparison sites
1.4%
15 Investopedia
investopedia.com
Comparison sites
1.4%
16 Texas Dept. of Insurance
tdi.texas.gov
Regulators
1.4%
17 TechInsurance
techinsurance.com
Comparison sites
1.4%
18 AAV Law Firm
aavlawfirm.com
Law firms
0.7%
19 Acrisure
acrisure.com
Agencies
0.7%
20 Nationwide Agency
agency.nationwide.com
Agencies
0.7%
21 Baldwin Risk Partners
baldwin.com
Agencies
0.7%
22 colby-group.com
colby-group.com
unknown
0.7%
23 Colonial Insurance
colonialinsurance.net
Agencies
0.7%
24 Cynet
cynet.com
Security vendors
0.7%
25 Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Publishers
0.7%
26 Federal Trade Commission
ftc.gov
Regulators
0.7%
27 Hudson Valley Credit Union
hvcu.org
Banks
0.7%
28 illinoisinsurancebrokers.com
illinoisinsurancebrokers.com
unknown
0.7%
29 Insurance Brokers of Arizona
insurancebrokersofaz.com
Agencies
0.7%
30 Insurance Training Center
insurancetrainingcenter.com
Publishers
0.7%
31 InsuredBetter
insuredbetter.com
Comparison sites
0.7%
32 Illinois IWCC
iwcc.illinois.gov
Regulators
0.7%
33 Homebase
joinhomebase.com
Payroll platforms
0.7%
34 Lennox Insurance
lennoxinsurancenea.com
Agencies
0.7%
35 Liberty Mutual
libertymutual.com
Insurers
0.7%
36 Yelp
m.yelp.com
Directories
0.7%
37 MAPFRE
mapfreinsurance.com
Insurers
0.7%
38 NerdWallet
nerdwallet.com
Comparison sites
0.7%
39 OCMI Workers Comp
ocmiworkerscomp.com
Agencies
0.7%
40 Oyster HR
oysterhr.com
Payroll platforms
0.7%

Types are assigned from a published list. A source we cannot classify with confidence is left unclassified rather than guessed at.

Where this board sits

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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. The first three use the same 24 searches captured August 2026. Local Pack comes from a separate set of near-me searches measured per metro, joined here.

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.