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-{{Infobox flag
- | Name = Illinois
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- | Image = Flag of Illinois.svg
+{{R from merge|Seal of Illinois}}
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- | Use = 110000
- | Symbol = {{FIAV|normal}}
- | Proportion = 3:5
- | Adoption = June 27, 1969
- | Design = Seal of Illinois on a white field
- | Designer = Sharon Tyndale
- | Image2 = Flag of Illinois (1915-1969).svg
- | Nickname2 = Flag of 1915-1969
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- | Type = State
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-The '''[[flag]] of the [[state of Illinois]]''' consists of the [[seal of Illinois]] on a white background, with the word "Illinois" underneath the seal.
-==Design==
-<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Illinois State Flag at John Hancock Center.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The Illinois flag flying at the [[John Hancock Center]] in Chicago {{deletable image-caption|Monday, 21 November 2011}}]] -->
-The current flag depicts the [[Seal of Illinois|Great Seal of Illinois]], which was originally designed in 1819 and emulated the [[Great Seal of the United States]].  In the eagle's beak there is a banner with the state motto, "State Sovereignty, National Union."  The dates on the seal, 1818 and 1868 represent the year Illinois became a state and the year in which the Great Seal was redesigned by Sharon Tyndale. Although "State Sovereignty" comes first in the motto, Illinois was victorious in the [[American Civil War]] on the Union side, fighting ''against'' state sovereignty, so Tyndale placed "State" at the bottom and "Sovereignty" upside-down.<ref>[http://www.sos.state.il.us/general/seal.html Seal of the State of Illinois<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-In 2001, a survey of vexillologists and members of the public conducted by the [[North American Vexillological Association]] ranked the Illinois flag design as 49th out of the 72 flags of the [[U.S. state]]s and [[Territories of the United States|territories]] and [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian provinces and territories]].<ref>http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/State&Provincial%20Survey%202001/surveyresults.htm</ref>
-==History==
-[[Image:Ella Park Lawerence and the Illinois State Flag.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ella Park Lawrence holds the new Illinois state flag, ca. 1915.]]
-===Initial adoption, 1915===
-During her time as state regent of the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]] in 1912, Ella Park Lawrence began a campaign to have Illinois adopt a [[Flags of the U.S. states|state flag]].<ref>[http://www.thezephyr.com/illflag002.htm Barbara Schock, "Ella Park Lawrence, Mother of the Illinois State Flag," Presented to the Galesburg Woman's Club May 12,2007.]</ref>  She was unsuccessful during her time as state regent, but continued to lobby members of the [[Illinois General Assembly]] to adopt a state flag as a member of the [[Rockford, Illinois|Rockford]] chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.<ref>[http://www.thezephyr.com/illflag002.htm Barbara Schock, "Ella Park Lawrence, Mother of the Illinois State Flag," Presented to the Galesburg Woman's Club May 12,2007.]</ref>  On April 1, 1914, Lawrence sent a letter to every Illinois chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution announcing a contest to design an Illinois state flag, with the winner receiving a prize of $25.<ref>[http://www.thezephyr.com/illflag002.htm Barbara Schock, "Ella Park Lawrence, Mother of the Illinois State Flag," Presented to the Galesburg Woman's Club May 12,2007.]</ref>  Thirty-five designs were submitted in response to this contest.<ref>[http://www.thezephyr.com/illflag002.htm Barbara Schock, "Ella Park Lawrence, Mother of the Illinois State Flag," Presented to the Galesburg Woman's Club May 12,2007.]</ref>
-The contest was judged by a panel chaired by [[Lewis Stevenson]], [[Illinois Secretary of State]].  They selected the design of Lucy Derwent.<ref>[http://www.thezephyr.com/illflag002.htm Barbara Schock, "Ella Park Lawrence, Mother of the Illinois State Flag," Presented to the Galesburg Woman's Club May 12,2007.]</ref> The flag became the official state banner on July 6, 1915, following its passage in the Illinois State House and Senate.<ref>[http://www.thezephyr.com/illflag002.htm Barbara Schock, "Ella Park Lawrence, Mother of the Illinois State Flag," Presented to the Galesburg Woman's Club May 12,2007.]</ref>  Governor [[Edward F. Dunne]] did not sign the bill, but he did not veto it.<ref>{{cite web | last = Office of the Illinois Secretary of State | authorlink = Secretary of State of Illinois | title = Illinois Handbook of Government: 2007-2008 | work = p. 135 | publisher = Secretary of State of Illinois | date = 2007-03-31 | url = http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/handbook/0708handbook.pdf | accessdate = 2007-09-14 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071203122651/http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/handbook/0708handbook.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-12-03}}</ref>
-===1969 alterations===
-In the 1960s, [[Chief Petty Officer]] Bruce McDaniel petitioned to have the name of the state added to the flag.  He noted that many of the people he served with during the [[Vietnam War]] did not recognize the banner.  Governor [[Richard B. Ogilvie]] signed the addition to the flag into law on September 17, 1969, and the new flag was designed by Mrs. Sanford Hutchinson and became the official flag on July 1, 1970.<ref>[http://www.illinois.gov/facts/stateflag.cfm Illinois.gov - Illinois Facts - Official State Flag]<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-=== Illinois Centennial design ===
-[[File:Illinois Centennial Flag.gif|thumb|left|Illinois Centennial flag by Wallace Rice]]
-For Illinois' first 100 years of statehood in 1918, [[Wallace Rice]], who designed [[Flag of Chicago|Chicago's flag]], designed a centennial flag for the state.  It had three horizontal bands of equal width alternating white, blue, white. It was charged with 21 stars along the edge of the hoist. There were 10 blue stars in the upper white band and 10 in the lower white band, representing the 10 northern and 10 southern states at the time of Illinois' statehood in 1818.  The center blue band had one large, white star for the State of Illinois itself.<ref>[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-il100.html Illinois Anniversary Flags]</ref>
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-==See also==
-{{Portal|Illinois}}
-*[[State of Illinois]]
-**[[Symbols of the State of Illinois|Symbols of Illinois]]
-***[[Great Seal of the State of Illinois]]
-==References==
-{{Reflist|2}}
-==External links==
-*[http://www.illinois.gov/facts/stateflag.cfm Illinois State Flag]
-{{US_state_flags}}
-{{Illinois}}
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-[[pt:Bandeira do Illinois]]
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-[[vi:Lá cờ Illinois]]