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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Illinoisans made the secretary of state’s naughty list this year after trying to customize their license plates in a lewd or indecent manner. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias reported more than 550 vanity and personalized license plate requests were rejected in 2025, compared to 335 the previous year. Andrew Adams Capitol News ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias spoke Thursday morning on reports that Texas police illegally accessed Illinois automatic license plate reader data to track down a woman ...