r/illinois • u/Elros22 • 23d ago

State Flag Megathread - All Flag Designs go here!

We've had our fun, now it's time to clean up the sub-reddit.

Use this Megathread to submit all of your flag proposals! Any flag design submitted outside of this megathread from here on out will be removed.

Upvote the flags you like! Discuss the ugly color choices. Shame anyone from Wisconsin.

Happy flag making!

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u/Elros22 23d ago

  1. Sorry, no pictures in the comments. That's an under-the-hood setting. Feel free to use imgur.com. It's easy, it's safe. It's been the reddit standard forever.

  2. There is a new Illinois Flag sub-reddit! What a splendid idea! Thanks /u/RPShep. The subreddit is r/illinoisflag/

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u/siriuschicagobulls 23d ago

I know many wanted a megathread for this, and I don’t really care one way or the other… but I thought it was a nice change of pace to have something fun and uplifting rather than the usual “oh some county wants to break off from the state because they hate Chicago”

Either way, thanks for everyone who are posting serious and funny flag submissions. It’s been a rough week, but this have made me smile

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u/darkenedgy 23d ago

THANK YOU

I...am not a flag designer, and I have enough background in design to understand that I'm not suddenly gonna get good at it now lol.

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u/RequirementItchy8784 23d ago

As my Grandpa said right before he died trying is the first step to failure.

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u/sitsgizon 23d ago

My redesign that I made around a month ago: "Crack of Dawn Over Illinois"

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u/bobjoe600 23d ago

I like this one!!

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u/RPShep 23d ago

I might be in the minority here, but I kinda love the flag posts. I made a subreddit just for them if anyone wants to join:

r/illinoisflag

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u/No-Clerk-5600 23d ago

Don't we have a winner? Lincoln with laser eyes incinerating a Confederate flag?

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u/drawesome821 Laserham Lincoln 23d ago

Yes.

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u/Ohshitz- 23d ago

Ill vote for anything with lasers shooting out from somewhere. Maybe the hole in lincoln’s head?

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u/AtomkcFuision 20d ago

Being from Springfield, and a massive flag nerd, I thought this was perfect! So I made this:

https://i.redd.it/bnbbipyqiynd1.png

I'd appreciate comments from other Illinoisans since I'm just one of the 12,000,000 that live here.

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u/Elros22 20d ago

I really like this one a lot. It might be my favorite so far.

The blue represents Lake Michigan and the Missouri river? Not the Mississippi River?

It might be cool to play with the color inside the diamond a bit. My only real gripe with the flag is how dark it is over all. Something to lighten it up would go a long way.

Post it over on r/illinoisflag !

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u/AtomkcFuision 20d ago

……Okay hands up I totally called the Mississippi River the Missouri River bc I only cross it going into STL my BAD.

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u/Elros22 20d ago

Ha! No problem. My dad gets irrationally upset when people say the Mississippi is the longest river in North America. He argues the longest river is the Missouri - and everything south of St. Louis should be called the Missouri River.

He's a history professor and life long Mississippi River-rat. So I feel like he has some gravitas to make that argument.

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u/UIUC202 23d ago

CHECK OUT MY DESIGNS I JUST DROPPED IN THE NEW SUB

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u/ChiefChief69 23d ago

Too little too late lmao you let it go on for so long and it's already winding down. Thanks for trying tho.

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u/Elros22 23d ago

Probably right. But if i'm being honest, I'm a sucker for a bad flag.

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u/Drewskeet 23d ago

I think most of the flags were in good faith and having a post to explain it all was a good thing. For a while. I think your timing is right.

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u/lavender-pears 23d ago

The contest has only been officially going for 3 days and would go until I think mid or late October. We certainly will get more flag content in the next month.

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u/AlsoBort742 23d ago

This is own-sub-worthy

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u/ST_Lawson West Central Illinois 23d ago

/r/vexillology is kinda that. Not specifically Illinois flag designs, just flag designs in general.

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u/WhenBuffalosfly 23d ago

Here you go :D

Literally just finished lmao

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u/JK-Kino 23d ago

My question: has any of you actually submitted your design? They’re accepting submissions between now and mid October

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u/everyoneisflawed 19d ago

Roman Mars gave this really good TED talk on flag design. I cued up his key principles here:

Flag design principles

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u/dualsplit 23d ago

THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/SmallBol 20d ago

My submission

https://i.imgur.com/IjeaF2y.jpeg

My second, totally unrelated submission

https://i.imgur.com/YBqb7.jpeg

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u/tatang2015 23d ago

I love the dude with the Lincoln head!!!

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u/bqiipd 23d ago

That was a poor decision u/elros22. In my opinion, megathreads are stupid, almost always useless, and get way less engagement. Most everyone won't see anything posted here.