Scott Grandchamp was cleaning out the backroom last month at the LaGrange Park Ace Hardware store he owns when he found an ...

The original call for artists, or otherwise, to submit their suggested designs saw more than 5,000 entries pour in with the ...

Lucy Derwent, of the Rockford chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, placed the Illinois state seal on a white background, and it was chosen to represent the state. She won $25 (the ...

Vote for the current Illinois flag not because it is so great, but because anything else wastes our tax dollars.

The sesquicentennial (150-year, upper left) and centennial (upper right) designs for the Illinois state flag are candidates ...

Participants can also vote for previous flag designs — one from the 1960s and another from 1918 — or to leave Illinois’ existing flag (commonly derided as “a seal on a bedsheet” by flag ...

Illinois may be getting a new state flag, with residents able to choose from a total of 13 banner designs beginning this month. Nearly 5,000 entries were submitted to the Illinois Flag Commission ...

How could this flag represent any state but Illinois? It’s not especially colorful, though, meaning it won’t stand out among the traditional seal-on-a-bedsheet flags. This one looks a little ...

A Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Illinois have died of bird flu, officials say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A pair of “amazing animals” — a harbor seal and a ...

The link to vote can be found here. Illinois’ current flag incorporates the state’s official seal, which was adopted in 1869. The flag itself was adopted in 1915, with a small addition of the ...