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

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, that didn't stop him from denying them.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The Illinois Secretary of State's Office Monday released its annual list of rejected vanity license plates. Out of nearly 56,000 requests, more than 550 were denied for ...

Illinois rejected 550 out of 55,000 custom license plate applications in 2025 for violating decency standards.

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ still praised some of the “inflammatory, profane, offensive or too difficult to read” vanity license plate requests turned down in 2025, a small portion of the ...

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 ...

Some Illinoisans could be receiving a lump of coal for Christmas from the Illinois Secretary of State this year after their vanity plate submissions made the naughty list. That's right. Secretary of ...

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 ...

Can state police track drivers everywhere they go via hundreds of license plate cameras? A new lawsuit says that Illinois' widespread use of such cameras—called automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) ...

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 ...

According to a Louisville Metro Police internal investigation, Illinois barred the department from accessing its license ...