Illinois will begin taking submissions from the public to redesign the state flag starting next week. The Illinois Flag Commission — made up of political appointees and representatives from the ...

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced that a panel will accept submissions to redesign the Illinois flag from Sept. 3 to Oct. 18, 2024. The commission will select 10 designs based on how they ...

The highly anticipated Illinois flag redesign contest results were released on Thursday morning. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said after the five-week voting period, a majority ...

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Illinois may be getting a new flag…or they may keep the old one. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias says the Illinois Flag Commission will start accepting public submissions for a new ...

Murrow Awards. The original call for artists, or otherwise, to submit their suggested designs saw more than 5,000 entries pour in with the Illinois Flag Commission. From that panoply, the ...

You can help decide whether the state of Illinois gets a new flag. On Tuesday night, we are getting our first look at the 10 finalists from thousands of submissions in a state flag redesign contest.

SPRINGFIELD — Amateur vexillologists everywhere, prepare — the time to design a new Illinois ... flag designs were submitted and 44,000 comments received, the state settled on a redesign ...

This week, the Illinois Flag Commission announced 10 finalists in the running to be the state's new flag. We asked you to pick your favorite. The results: 21% of you like No. 6 (above), which ...

Illinois is considering whether it needs ... who really cares when politicians create a sweet little competition to redesign the state flag? Well, here’s why you should care.

Illinoisans have spoken: Don’t go changing our flag. The public had a chance to vote for a new flag from one of 12 designs or keep the current one. And after five weeks of voting, the current ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Flag ...