“Only the simplest designs really function well,” says Kaye, who is the secretary of the North American Vexillological ...

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

Public reaction to the 10 finalists has been mixed, to say the least, so we turned to local design experts. They had some ...

President-elect Donald Trump will take office on Monday, and will do so with flags at full-staff above the United States ...

Voting is open in the the new state flag design contest. The public can vote online at www.ilsos.gov/stateflag for one of the ...

An American flag in miniature. The 21 stripes represent Illinois’s admission as the 21st state. The six-pointed star on a blue field represents Chicago, and the white space in between is shaped ...

After some controversy over whether flags should fly at full-staff on Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an ...

Doris Turner, of Springfield, and Rep. Kam Buckner, of Chicago. The commission selected the 10 finalists in December from 4,844 entries. The possible new flags come from a variety of designers, ...