A month ago, we’re not even thinking about this. Now we might have two or three girls that might be able to get a scholarship.” ...

Gov. Tate Reeves has ordered all flags in Mississippi at half-staff on March 17 to honor three people who died in a medical ...

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

Illinois voters prefer to keep the current state flag, earning 165,602 votes. That's disappointing, but not altogether surprising.  As I've written before, the finalists for the new flag were also ...

Click here to see the submitted flags that didn’t make the cut. The winning design, pictured above, is from graphic designer Shan Rodich. Here’s what the symbols mean, according to the ...

After 385,000 votes, Illinois residents overwhelmingly chose to retain the current state flag, despite new design options.

Utah, Minnesota and Mississippi have all recently undergone flag redesigns, and Michigan is set to hold a flag design contest later this year. Utah and Minnesota both ditched flags with state seals on ...

Colleen Hayes, a graphic designer with Champaign-based Clanin Creative, is shown with its submission in the Illinois flag-design contest, which came in second. The current state flag of Illinois ...

The American flag on US race cars is intentionally reversed to symbolize forward movement. This design follows United States Flag Code and is also seen on airplanes and NASA spacecraft.

Illinois residents have spoken and when it comes to the state flag, the message is clear: if it's not broke, don't fix it. After a five-week voting period for a new state flag, residents ...

Earlier this year, the public had the chance to vote for their favorite out of 10 new designs, three previous iterations and the current state flag.