Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner was chosen. And it's the current flag. Of nearly 385,000 votes cast, the existing ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Wednesday that the state will begin accepting public submissions for a new state flag design starting Sept. 3. Residents will be able to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, Maple Leaf — or SOB. That would ...