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 ...

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 (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 ...

Everyone loves a vanity plate that means something special, but sometimes that clever wit goes too far and is deemed offensive. That's where the Illinois Secretary of State's office steps in. Illinois ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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