Wheaton's Sarah Grandy, an ICA Rising Star, tops the Illinois list of US Chess Junior Grand Prix point earners as of May 2, 2017.

Sarah is the only Illinois player in the top 45 in the country, participating in five events.

Aren Emrikian and Arthur Xu, both heading to Brazil as World Cadet qualifiers, are also among the top 10 point earners from Illinois as of the one-third mark on the year. Both have also played in five JGP events thus far in 2017, and both are ICA Warren Scholars.

The complete top 10 for Illinois are listed below.

Name	JGP Points		Events
GRANDY, SARAH RUTH	2591		5
PLOTNICK, JACOB	2493		3
XU, ARTHUR	2476		5
SCHNEIDER, ROSALI	2006		1
EMRIKIAN, AREN C	1982		5
DAUM, MATTHEW	1816		2
BUDIMAN, MATTHEW	1794		1
CHIFLIKYAN, MICHAEL	1750		1
PHAM, LINDA	1571		2
FEYGIN, ALEC	1570		2