Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias warned federal agents against swapping out license plates. Records show it happened anyway.

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias says his office fielded hundreds of complaints about federal immigration enforcement agents changing plates to disguise their vehicles. The tactic is illegal, he ...

The Illinois Secretary of State has revoked an Illinois license plate from a rental car agency, saying federal agents switched plates on at least one rented vehicle. In October. Giannoulias said ICE ...

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 ...

The secretary of state sent a cease and desist letter to ICE head Todd Lyons, citing “multiple reports of federal ICE agents illegally swapping out the license plates displayed on vehicles.” ...

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 ...

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) ...

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, then-Illinois Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...