Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

Photos from the first women’s college flag football game in Illinois between Benedictine and Rockford on March 8, 2025, at the Walter Payton Center in Lake Forest.

International Women's Day — the Bears hosted the first ever collegiate women's flag football game in the state of Illinois, featuring Benedictine University and Rockford University.

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state’s bald eagle-themed ...

The Illinois state flag is sometimes derided as an “SOB” — a state “Seal on a Bedsheet.” SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state's bald eagle-themed ...