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ILLINOIS, USA — Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office revealed the 2025 list of rejected vanity and personalized license plate requests, which included over 550 rejected plates, ...

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 ...

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 (CBS) --"JAGWEED," "MUNCH," "BADARSE." Those are just a few of the more than 300 requests for vanity Illinois license plates that were rejected last year. Every year, the Illinois Secretary of ...

A proposal moving through the Illinois General Assembly would place sweeping new limits on how police departments and ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Illinoisans made the secretary of state’s naughty list this year after trying to customize their license plates in a lewd or indecent manner. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias ...