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

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

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill ... School of DuPage came up with the idea while learning about state symbols.

for Illinois being the 21st state, and a letter “I” made from the negative space. Other state symbols that show up across some of the finalists include a butterfly, for the official state ...