Friedrich Merz's stance against displaying the rainbow flag at the German parliament for the upcoming Christopher Street Day ...

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) “Seal on a ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — At the State Capitol Thursday, a proposal was heard that aims to resurrect the retired Minnesota state flag. The bill — authored by 22 House Republicans — would allow the ...

State officials announced Thursday morning that the current flag won the contest with 165,602 votes, or 43 percent. However, Champaign-based firm Clanin Creative is proud of its design's second ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois state flag may be around a lot longer, it turns out. About 43% of the 385,000 votes in an advisory state flag revision contest decided they’d prefer to resist change ...

Of the nearly 385,000 votes received, more than 165,000, or 43 percent, were cast for the current Illinois state flag. He said it received more votes than the next five top designs combined.

The redesign contest included 10 new flag designs, two former state flags and the current one. “Some may call it an SOB — a seal on a bedsheet — and the vexillological community may hate it ...

Sen. Doris Turner, a Springfield Democrat who sponsored the 2023 bill leading to the design contest, said in a January interview that the flag competition process did not cost the state any money ...

This design -- a green pine tree on a blue shield, a traditional symbol of Massachusetts since the 17th century -- was used on the reverse side of the state flag from 1908 until 1971, when it was ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois voters have opted to keep the current state flag ahead of several proposed redesigns, the Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias' Office said. This comes after five weeks ...

Current flag wins state flag redesign vote Senator behind flag contest has no ‘preconceived notions’ about next Illinois flag By BRIDGETTE FOX Capitol News Illinois [email protected] ...

Of the nearly 385,000 votes that were received, over 165,000 — or 43 percent — were cast for the current Illinois state flag. In fact, it received more votes than the next five top designs ...