Illinois Secretary of State

The Illinois Secretary of State's office has rejected over 50,000 vanity plate requests in the past five years and some are too good to ignore.

You'd think that this would be an easily answered question. If my plate, or plates were stolen, I'd probably think of myself as being the victim in that scenario. However, an Aurora man found out that things sometimes are just not that clear-cut.

Isn't it nice when you have an extremely long list of things that you need to get done and somebody tells you to go ahead and scratch an item off of your list because they're going to go ahead and give you some extra time?

If you recall, the original, pre-pandemic deadline for the move to REAL ID was October 21, 2020. Then, COVID-19 came along and threw a monkey-wrench into things. So, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pushed things back one year to October 21, 2021 to give people time to get things together while dealing with the pandemic.

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White knows that there's nothing that Illinois residents enjoy more than spending some time waiting in line at Illinois driver's license facilities, but he'd like you to reconsider your next trip there.

The move to digital driver's licenses and digital license plates hasn't happened yet here in Illinois, but a bunch of other states have already jumped on the idea and run with it.

Well, to be totally accurate, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is the one saying "make an appointment," not the actual driver service facility building on East State Street.

Back in June, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced that automobile insurance verification would be conducted by a new system that checks auto insurance electronically twice a year.

This might be a first, not just for Rockford but for all departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) everywhere.

The State of Illinois estimates that there are between 15 and 18 percent of Illinois drivers out there driving without car insurance. Since we have an estimated 8.5 million drivers in our state, that means there are around 1.5 million people driving uninsured.