More than just a bear, Monarch was a California icon: a Golden State marketing sensation ... in which author Gary Brown argues the modern California flag design is based on an 1855 drawing of Samson ...

Yet without the unglamorous questions from a front-line beat reporter, the story would not have acquired enough details to be interesting beyond the Aloha State ... are going to draw the attention ...

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Some forward-looking Illinois lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner ...

Illinois Votes on a New State Flag Design — and Chooses the Current One SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or ...

(AP) — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, Maple Leaf — or SOB. That would be (state ...

The current state flag of Illinois earned 165,602 votes, or 43 percent, in a contest put on by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office. Colleen Hayes, a graphic designer with Champaign-based ...