There were 10 finalists in the contests, and nearly 385,000 people voted. The existing flag received 43% of the votes, more ...

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

The redesign contest included 10 new designs, two former state flags and the current one. The current flag received over ...

The public overwhelmingly favors retaining the current state flag. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced ...

After 385,000 votes, Illinois residents overwhelmingly chose to retain the current state flag, despite new design options.

The Illinois state flag may be around a lot longer, it turns out. About 43% of the 385,000 votes in an advisory state flag ...

Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to ... whose archivist chairs the Illinois Flag Commission. Its members were chosen by the governor, legislative ...

The Illinois state flag is sometimes derided ... Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner was chosen.

This image provided by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office in March 2025 shows the third-place voted state flag design. (Illinois Secretary of State via AP) This image provided by the ...

Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to ... whose archivist chairs the Illinois Flag Commission. Its members were chosen by the governor, legislative ...

Illinois Votes on a New State Flag Design — and Chooses the Current One SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or ...