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 ...

Readers flooded us with their ideas for a new state flag as lawmakers, led by Democratic Rep. Strom Peterson of Edmonds, briefly considered redesigning the old one. That legislation ultimately ...

The Illinois state flag design. AP SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, ...