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 ...

If you’re opting to pay extra for a personalized or vanity license plate in Illinois, you might want to check this list of rejected requests before sending in your inquiry. More than 54,000 Illinois ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can state police track drivers everywhere they go via hundreds of license plate cameras? A new lawsuit says that Illinois' widespread use of such cameras—called automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) ...

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 ...

License plates in America can convey a lot of information about the person behind the wheel. From showing the state where a ...

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