Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office in March 2025 shows the top voted state ...

While city leaders have no plan to adopt it as Cleveland’s official flag, project organizers hope the new design will be embraced by residents. The red, white, and blue flag features a bold blue ...

The Illinois state flag design. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, ...

This image provided by the Illinois Secretary of State's Office in March 2025 shows the top voted state flag design, the current flag. (Illinois Secretary of State's Office via AP) SPRINGFIELD, Ill.

The current flag, which features a classic seal of a bald eagle on a plain white background, received more votes than the next six top designs combined. “Some may call it an SOB — a seal on a bedsheet ...

The American flag on US race cars is intentionally reversed to symbolize forward movement. This design follows United States Flag Code and is also seen on airplanes and NASA spacecraft.

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state's bald eagle-themed emblem.

Illinois Votes on a New State Flag Design — and Chooses the Current One SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or ...

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. Of nearly 385,000 votes cast, the existing bunting received 43% ...

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 ...

Colleen Hayes, a graphic designer with Champaign-based Clanin Creative, is shown with its submission in the Illinois flag-design contest, which came in second. The current state flag of Illinois ...