The state of Illinois took a tongue-in-cheek approach to showcasing the many inappropriate vanity license plate applications ...

Be they profane, inflammatory or simply hard to read, Illinois rejected 550 of the more than 55,000 requested vanity plates ...

From “PRIUSSY” to "SYBAU" and “IBPOOPN,” Illinois just revealed the vanity plates that went too far in 2025. Some are crude, ...

Revealing the list of rejected license plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said he appreciated the creativity. Still ...

Illinois rejected more than 550 vanity plate requests in 2025 for being offensive or hard to read. See what made the banned list.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias released this year’s rejected vanity and personalized license plate applications.

More than 550 personalized license plate requests were denied by the Illinois Secretary of State’s office this year after it ...

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 -- 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 ...