Public submissions for new design of Illinois state flag will soon be accepted

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Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said public submissions for a new design will be accepted starting Tuesday.

Ten of those designs will be selected.

After a public feedback period, the general assembly will decide whether to adopt a new flag or keep the current one.

Visit www.ilsos.gov or submit designs via mail addressed to Illinois Flag Commission, Howlett Building, Room 476, 501 S. Second St., Springfield, IL 62756.

Minnesota unveiled its new flag in December 2023, using a similar method to the one adopted by Illinois, a news release from Giannoulias' office Wednesday said. Both Michigan and Maine are also considering an official change in their state flags, the release said.


Current flag

 

[Jobama]

r/vexillology faggots complaining its not following their insane guidelines and demands.
If its gonna be redesigned, I expect it to have words and stuff.

I wish redditors would stop ruining flags.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The deep dish pizzas as well?

I mean it was always a chigago thing that i remember. Other areas had it, but it was most famous there.

 

[Breadbassket]

That's Chigago. The rest of illinois is very much farm country with lots of corn and deer hunting. The niggery stays in the city mostly.

An intersecting 9mm pistol and a corncob is the most fair compromise to represent both urban and rural Illinois.

 

[Marvin]

Line art on flags is shitty.

Flags should be simple enough that a child can draw a reasonably identifiable version of it with markers, and then beyond that, distinctive and iconic of the entity it represents.

It should be accessible to the common man to that extent.

Like I hate European tricolors, but I think there's a possible sweet spot between slapping the state seal on a flag like US states like to do, and then just three colored bars like Europe likes to do.

I have similar gripes about overly complicated national anthems. National anthems should be something a crowd of people can sing drunk at a sports game to taunt the faggots on the other side. You basically need to be an opera singer to properly sing the US national anthem.

 

[Derrick]

After a public feedback period, the general assembly will decide whether to adopt a new flag or keep the current one.

That's smart for a moment I thought they were going to go the Internet poll route. Would have been kinda interesting though to see a flag designed/mass voted on by the morally upstanding citizens of the Internet.

 

[Danann]

I wish redditors would stop ruining flags.

Way too many of them are geometric and lack simple round shapes for some reason.

 

[McMitch]

Just replace it with this, verbatim:

Spoiler

 

[AncientPhosphur]

That's Chigago. The rest of illinois is very much farm country with lots of corn and deer hunting. The niggery stays in the city mostly.

Yeah just ignore Peoria and Rockford.

 

[Slav Power]

Illinois huh?

I got just the flag they need.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Yeah just ignore Peoria and Rockford.

Peoria is a factory city. Yeah there's crime. Its not Chiraq. I don't remember Rockford, we didn't go there much.

 

[thog]

I'm fully expecting it to just be this:

 

[AllieKat]

My submission

Spoiler: nsfw furry porn

 

[TJT]

Lets make the the troon flag.

 

[Safir]

Illinois huh?
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I got just the flag they need.
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This is one of the best designs in history. Communist flags, where Communism held, are good, too.

(Null once sperged about how Communist flags were overwhemlingly bad, but it's cos most of them were temporary banners of ad-hoc factions which would stop existing one way or another -- a group would get some weapons, take a piece of red fabric, and write their geographic origin on it, it's not like they could hire a marketing agency to design a logo and run an ad campaign on tiktok for brand recognition.)

 

[Meat Target]

You basically need to be an opera singer to properly sing the US national anthem.

No, you just need to sing it reverently, and not try to stylize it.

 

[JosephStalin]

Yeah just ignore Peoria and Rockford.

Don't forget East St. Louis, followed by Alton, Wood River, and East Alton.

Here's one of the ugliest flags I have ever seen, This is the flag of Monterey, CA.

 

[Post Reply]

Someone should sneak in a submission based on the Congo's flag.

 

[Emerson_Lake_and_Palmer_2]

Just use the Illinois Centennial flag back from 1918.

 

[Spliongus]

Just make it a crack pipe and be done with it

 

[Gorton Colu]

Boring. Needs to be the flag of Mozambique, but with a shotgun and a corncob
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I'm fully expecting it to just be this:

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Great minds think alike. This came to me as soon as I saw the thread.

Edit: I'm not sold on using the hi point as the pistol, but something tells me its the most appropriate.