“Some may call it an SOB and the vexillogical community (flag experts) may hate it, but people overwhelmingly prefer our current state flag,” said Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, whose archivist ...

The highly anticipated Illinois flag redesign contest results were released on Thursday morning. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said after the five-week voting period, a majority ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced the results of the state flag redesign contest following a five-week voting period. Voters had the option to choose their favorite from ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced the results of the state flag redesign contest following a five-week voting period. Voters had the option to choose their favorite from ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced the winning design of the state's new flag contest. Except, well, it's not new. Flashback: Last year, the Illinois Flag Commission released ...

Editor's Note: The video in this story is from a previous report. After thousands of submissions, 10 finalists and nearly 385,000 votes, the state of Illinois may not have a new flag after all.

Illinoisans voted to keep the current state flag in a redesign contest. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Illinoisans have spoken: Don’t go changing our flag. The public had a chance ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA / WGN) — The results are in for the contest to redesign the Illinois state flag, but these tallies aren’t the final say. One design from Champaign received the second ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois voters have opted to keep the current state flag ahead of several proposed ... There were nearly 386,000 votes received in the contest, with more than 165,000 or 43 ...

Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and ... whose archivist chairs the Illinois Flag Commission. Its members were chosen by the governor, legislative leaders ...

Illinoisans have spoken: Don’t go changing our flag. The public had a chance to vote for a new flag from one of 12 designs or keep the current one. And after five weeks of voting, the current ...

The Illinois state flag is sometimes derided as an “SOB ... 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.