Chicago Flag Of Illinois

Chicago s flag has a white field with two blue horizontal stripes each about one sixth of the width of the hoist and set slightly less than one sixth.

Chicago flag of illinois. I made the blue bars 1 6th of total height and positioned a little less than one sixth from the top according to the chicago municipal code 1 8 30. Harrison s flag commission received more than 1 000 proposals before settling on a design submitted by wallace rice a lecturer in heraldry and flag history at the art institute of chicago. Category cities in illinois contains only one city without the state name too and that s chicago. The flags category doesn t need to be used to determine the title here.

Support flag of chicago. Image s from american city flags by permission of david b. Please do not modify it. I kept it simple and similar in design to the chicago flag one of the most well liked city flags in the country and rated 2 by the north american vexillological association.

For illinois s first 100 years of statehood in 1918 wallace rice who designed chicago s flag designed a centennial flag for the state it had three horizontal bands of equal width alternating white blue white. Text and image s from american city flags raven 9 10 2002 2003 courtesy of the north american vexillological association which retains copyright. State flag consisting of a white field background with the state seal in the centre showing a bald eagle a shield a ribbon and other symbols in 1913 five years prior to the centennial of statehood wallace rice submitted a proposal for an illinois state flag. Illinois ˌ ɪ l ə ˈ n ɔɪ il ə noy is a state in the midwestern and great lakes regions of the united states it has the fifth largest gross domestic product gdp the sixth largest population and the 25th largest land area of all u s.

Ah ok it says illinois at the bottom. The chicago flag is a bold simple design that has come to symbolize the city over which it flies. It was charged with 21 stars along the edge of the hoist. The illinois flag on the other hand looks like a.

With chicago in northeastern illinois small industrial cities and. 03 31 18 july 2007 utc the above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. I updated the flag s colors and proportions slightly using adobe illustrator cs2. Illinois has been noted as a microcosm of the entire united states.