Another design features an orange monarch butterfly surrounded by 21 orange stars over a blue backdrop. The first official flag of Illinois was adopted in 1915, almost 100 years after Illinois ...

Abraham Lincoln or his famous stovepipe top hat are in dozens of designs, including one that shows 21 black top hats (to represent Illinois being the 21st state) set upon an orange field because ...

Utah began collecting designs in January 2022, eventually receiving nearly 6,000 flag designs through its process. The Salt Lake Tribune ran its own contest and collected a little more than 1,000.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WGN) — The Illinois Flag Commission announced the Top 10 finalists for their new state flag design competition Tuesday. According to the Illinois Secretary of State’s ...

RELATED: Here's the new flag design Minnesotans want, according to a ranked-choice poll But the pair believes their design evokes much more and people can draw their own meaning from it.

An orange flag flies on top of the Tacoma Dome in 2023 On June 4, an orange flag was raised on the Tacoma Dome. Three years ago, Mayor Victoria Woodards declared June as Gun Violence Awareness ...

If the flag indeed is changed, it would be the first modification to the design since it was first adopted in 1915, and since 1969 when the word “Illinois” was added underneath.

The flag designs — 85% of the total number submissions — far surpassed the volume of state seal ideas. But the seal serves an important purpose on official government documents.

Ten-year-old Grace, of Milton, N.H. shows her contest winning “I Voted” sticker in her homeschool classroom, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Milton. Grace’s design, inspired by the framed image ...