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Illinois may be getting a new state flag next year, thanks to a public vote on 10 new flag design proposals that is scheduled for January. Nearly 5,000 entries were submitted to the Illinois Flag ...

Attention Illinois residents: You can now officially cast your vote for a new state flag. The voting opened Friday and follows SB1818, which created an Illinois Flag Commission to "gauge public desire ...

Maine is seeking design ideas before voters in November determine whether to adopt a new, more distinctive flag. By Amanda Holpuch Anyone with an idea for how the Maine state flag should look has a ...

Designer’s relationship to Illinois: 18-year-old lifelong resident born in Moline and currently living in Rock Island. Parents are also born and raised Illinoisans. Meaning behind the flag design: The ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Hanging outside the Pitman family's home is the Minnesota state flag of their dreams—a design the father and son duo created together that was chosen as one of the finalists by the ...

From design trends to deeper meaning, here’s why the American flag is becoming a thoughtful addition to homes right now.

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. Esme ...

The social media platform redesigned the emoji to a version of the flag popular with opposition groups as anti-government protests sweep the country. One of these 10 modern designs will be the next ...

Let’s try this again. A team of historians has taken another crack at developing South Carolina’s new state flag design after their first attempt was so widely mocked it had to be scrapped. This time ...