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

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, with the cooperation of Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 (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 — 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 ...

When it comes to personalizing your license plate, as you'd expect, there are limits. The Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias' office recently shared it rejected more than 300 vanity and ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic ...

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 ...