“Some may call it an SOB and the vexillogical community (flag experts) may hate it, but people overwhelmingly prefer our ...
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said after the five-week voting period, the current state flag won the vote.
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 ...
The people of Illinois have spoken, and they overwhelmingly favor retaining the current state flag. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced the results of the state flag ...
After 385,000 votes, Illinois residents overwhelmingly chose to retain the current state flag, despite new design options.
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Illinois stuck with old state flag after a disappointing process
Illinois voters prefer to keep the current state flag, earning 165,602 votes. That's disappointing, but not altogether surprising.  As I've written before, the finalists for the new flag were also ...
"The results are, let's just say, overwhelming," Illinois Secretary of State ... Lawmakers will then vote on whether to adopt a new flag, reinstate an old one or keep the previous one, the ...
Last year, the Illinois Flag Commission collected almost 5,000 entries of redesigning the old flag. One of those entries was from a Champaign design agency who took second place in the contest.
Illinois flags have been ordered to fly at half staff ... The shootout also left a 25-year-old suspect dead, reports said. The Belleview News-Democrat reported Roscow is a graduated of Red Bud ...