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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 ...
ST. LOUIS — The Illinois Flag Commission has revealed the Top 10 finalists in its new state flag design competition. Starting in January, the public can vote on their favorite design through the ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...