Illinois, ready to choose a state flag? Voting is open in the the new state flag design contest. The public can vote online at www.ilsos.gov/stateflag for one of the ...

For the first time in decades, Illinois could adopt a new state flag-- and you could be the one to design it. Last year, Senate Bill 1818 -- appropriately named after the year Illinois became a ...

It’s advice he and other design experts hope the Illinois Flag Commission will take to heart as it forges ahead with the contest to pick a new flag to represent the state. Participants can also ...

Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and ... our current state flag,” said Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, whose archivist chairs the Illinois Flag Commission.

which created an Illinois Flag Commission to "gauge public desire for a new flag." Also included in public voting was the current state flag, along with three previous design versions. The voting ...

Current Illinois state flag wins overwhelmingly in redesign contest ... However, the majority of voters casted their ballots for a new design. “Looking at the vote totals, overwhelmingly ...

Lawmakers will then vote on whether to keep the current flag, return to a previous version or adopt a new one. Voters had the option to choose their favorite design from one of the Illinois Flag ...

Ogilvie by the committee. On July 1, 1970, a new flag design created by Florence Hutchison of Greenfield, “a white field carrying the word ‘ILLINOIS’ and the emblem portion of the state seal ...

Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and ... our current state flag,” said Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, whose archivist chairs the Illinois Flag Commission.

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 ...