SPRINGFIELD - The public overwhelmingly favors retaining the current state flag, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi ...
After 385,000 votes, Illinois residents overwhelmingly chose to retain the current state flag, despite new design options.
Lifelong city resident Matt Haigh’s independent research project at school focused on changing the design of the state flag ...
Illinois residents voted to keep the existing state flag design, which was adopted in 1915 after a contest to create a flag, and the current flag received more votes than the top 5 design combined.
State officials announced Thursday morning that the current flag won the contest with 165,602 votes, or 43 percent. However, ...
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 ...