Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

The Chicago flag tells a story in its stars and stripes, and there is meaning behind each of the elements of the iconic banner.

Earlier this year, the public had the chance to vote for their favorite out of 10 new designs, three previous iterations and ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said after the five-week voting period, the current state flag won the vote.

This is not acceptable, and we will ... to keep this flag flying upside down here until the state of normalcy returns to the country. A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Chicago had no comment ...

Illinoisans voted to keep the current state flag in a redesign contest. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Illinoisans have spoken: Don’t go changing our flag. The public had a chance ...

CHICAGO — Patriotism is cool at this year ... “Just cause a truck goes by with an American flag, we’ve got to stop going: ...

We do not feel welcomed. We do not feel included.” One marcher defended the flags in a post on the Chicago Dyke March Facebook page. “The flags that ‘triggered’ people were NOT a flag of ...

CHICAGO (WBBM ... raised an American flag upside down—a universal symbol of a state of emergency. “For many years, we have held it as a sacred piece of what it meant to America, but ...