Lucy Derwent, of the Rockford chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, placed the Illinois state seal on a white background, and it was chosen to represent the state. She won $25 (the ...

Scott Grandchamp was cleaning out the backroom last month at the LaGrange Park Ace Hardware store he owns when he found an ...

The state's special Centennial Flag, which features a total of 21 stars and a blue stripe on a white ... newsletter. Illinois’ current flag incorporates the state’s official seal, which ...

The Illinois State Flag ... rid of this boring “seal on a bedsheet” design. The Centennial Flag, created in 1918 to commemorate a century of Illinois statehood. A white star on a blue stripe ...

Illinois, ready to choose a state flag ... blue vertical bars on each end (with a narrow white stripe in between the colors) eliminates the ‘seal-on-bedsheet’ look. Not overly imaginative ...