Since then, the Rainbow Pride Flag has flown over the Capitol each year for the month of June until 2022, when Gov. Evers raised the Progress Pride Flag over the State Capitol for the first time.

Minnesota State Capitol will honor tribal nations with a Tribal Flag Plaza The Tribal Flag Plaza is pictured under construction on April 23, 2025, on the Capitol Mall in St. Paul.

Illinois' current state flag, nicknamed an SOB, wins in a landslide in a contest to design a new flag, with nearly 43% of votes cast.

Readers flooded us with their ideas for a new state flag as lawmakers, led by Democratic Rep. Strom Peterson of Edmonds, briefly considered redesigning the old one.

More than just a bear, Monarch was a California icon: a Golden State marketing sensation, a symbol of the vanishing wilderness and a reminder of California’s complicated relationship with its natural ...

The redesign contest included 10 new designs, two former state flags and the current one. The current flag received more than 165,000 of the nearly 385,000 votes cast.

He has partnered with other organizations in the state who have the same goal and in total, 84 cities and towns out of the 351 total in the Commonwealth have voted in favor of changing the flag.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — 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 revision contest decided they’d prefer to resist ...

After a five-week voting period for a new state flag, residents determined to keep the state's current flag, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced on March 6.

Approximately 43% of the 385,000 flag votes submitted online since January favored keeping Illinois' flag as it is.

About 43% of the 385,000 votes in an advisory state flag revision contest decided they’d prefer to resist change and keep the current design. There were 12 other flag choices.

Illinois voters have opted to keep the current state flag ahead of several proposed redesigns, the Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias' Office said. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North ...