Flags across Illinois will be lowered to half-staff in honor of a soldier from Joliet who died during a training exercise in Lithuania.

He served in the position for two years. Wallace Rice, poet and author who designed the official Chicago flag, explains to Jimmy Malles, 10, left, and Frank Pfieffer, 12, the meaning of the emblem ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state ... the law creating the flag inquiry. But the Chicago Democrat was quick ...

CHICAGO — The votes are in — the people of Illinois would like to keep the state flag as it is. The public had nearly a month to vote on 10 proposed state flag designs, along with two former ...

CHICAGO (WBBM ... faith community,” said Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Live Free Illinois. “People died for this flag,” an attendee said. A small group of veterans, however, took ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state ... the law creating the flag inquiry. But the Chicago Democrat was quick ...