The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office reports it received 55,690 requests for vanity and personalized license plates in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — There will be no 'WEENIE' or 'AXEHOLE' on personalized Illinois license plates. Illinoisans already asked and were rejected. According to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi ...

The state of Illinois took a tongue-in-cheek approach to showcasing the many inappropriate vanity license plate applications ...

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ still praised some of the “inflammatory, profane, offensive or too difficult to read” ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A license plate is supposed to be a simple way for states to sort and track cars, trucks and buses, matching unique combinations of letters and numbers to registrations. But there is ...

CHICAGO – The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office received more than 60,000 requests for vanity or personalized license plates in 2024. Of those, 335 (or 0.0055%) requests were denied for profanity ...

CHICAGO — In a decision that is raising free speech questions while wading into the political sensitivities surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, Democratic Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The monarch butterfly specialty license plate is now available for issue, seven years after it was approved by the Illinois General Assembly. Those who paid a $10 deposit in 2016 ...

Some Illinoisans could be receiving a lump of coal for Christmas from the Illinois Secretary of State this year after their vanity plate submissions made the naughty list. That's right. Secretary of ...

The Illinois secretary of state revoked five residents’ license plates that reference the Oct. 7 attacks. The office of Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat, said the plates were ...