Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias recently announced the Illinois Flag Commission will begin accepting public submissions for a new state flag design starting Tuesday, Sept. 3. Here's ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias recently announced the Illinois Flag Commission will begin accepting public submissions for a new state flag design starting Tuesday, Sept. 3. Here's ...

The state flag is essentially a white background with just the state seal — a bald eagle with the state motto in its mouth standing on a rock bearing the year of the state’s incorporation ...

A commission tasked with overseeing a process that could lead to a new Illinois state flag has selected 10 finalists for the public to consider early next year. The 20-member Illinois Flag ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WGN) — The Illinois Flag Commission announced the Top 10 finalists for their new state flag design ...

The Illinois Flag Commission announced that the state, in an effort to update the old flag, would accept new designs through Oct. 18. See the finalists here. Skip Navigation ...

The state flag now features a bald eagle with the state motto in its mouth standing on a rock bearing the year of the state’s incorporation, 1818, and the seal’s creation, 1868. It’s almost ...

A final Minnesota flag design is on display Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 St. Paul, Minn. The new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like the ...

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, Maple Leaf — or SOB. That would be (state) “Seal on a ...

The design was one of more than 400 submissions that Bellows received as part of a design contest she announced in June.. All entries had to include the elements of the original state flag used in ...

The Sesquicentennial Flag, with a red silhouette of the state embedded in a white letter I. Looks too much like the symbol of the Illinois Department of Transportation. No. 10 ...