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The Eid homecoming air travelers increase 7 percent year-on-year, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport says. Six Indonesian Umrah pilgrims died in a bus crash in Saudi Arabia on Thursday afternoon ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA / WGN) — The results are in for the contest to redesign the Illinois state flag, but these tallies aren’t the final say. One design from Champaign received the 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 ...

The current Illinois state flag has taken a resounding victory in a recent redesign contest, effectively overshadowing the efforts to introduce a new design. Of the nearly 385,000 votes cast ...

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Illinoisans have spoken: Don’t go changing our flag. The public had a chance to vote for a new flag from one of 12 designs or keep the current one. And after five weeks of voting, the current ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced following the five-week voting period to consider a redesign of the flag. Don't miss our top stories and need-to-know news everyday in your ...