In 1943, an Illinois woman with two sons in the military during World War II first visualized how to make a waterproof cloth tape to seal boxes of ammunition. Vesta Stoudt worked at the Green ...

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That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state’s bald eagle-themed ...

The Sandwich Spot held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new location at 201 W. State Street, near downtown Rockford, and owner Linda Dickerson believes the area is great for foot and vehicle traffic.

It has remained the same since with exception for the addition of the word "Illinois" placed below the seal in 1969. Claire Grant writes about business, growth and development and other news ...

Editor's Note: The video in this story is from a previous report. After thousands of submissions, 10 finalists and nearly 385,000 votes, the state of Illinois may not have a new flag after all.

The last confirmed sighting of a monk seal in Israel occurred in December 2024, when reservist soldiers reported one at the Rosh HaNikra caves. A rare Mediterranean monk seal was discovered dead ...

That’s 43% of the total vote, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias noted. “Some may call it an SOB — a seal on a bedsheet — and the (vexillologic) community may hate it ...

The people of Illinois have spoken ... “Some may call it an ‘SOB’ — a seal on a bedsheet — and the vexillological (study of flags) community may hate it, but people overwhelmingly ...

The seal named Chappy, which had been found flat on its stomach on a cold, snow-encrusted street in New Haven, Conn., had an intestinal disease, a necropsy showed. By Adeel Hassan Chappy ...