A photograph purporting to show the American flag being flown upside down outside the State Department has gone viral on ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A photo circulating online showing the American flag flying upside down outside the U.S. Department of State has raised questions from social media users about its authenticity. The ...

The current state flag was adopted in 1915 ... after Illinois was admitted into the Union. Lucy Derwent, of the Rockford chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, placed the Illinois ...

“Only the simplest designs really function well,” said Kaye, who is the secretary of the North American Vexillological ... to pick a new flag to represent the state. Participants can also ...

Scott Grandchamp was cleaning out the backroom last month at the LaGrange Park Ace Hardware store he owns when he found an untouched Illinois state flag tucked into a safe. He decided to replace a ...

Since U.S. flag code states that no flag should fly higher than the American flag on the same pole or nearby, state flags get lowered during those periods, too. House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet ... Just over a decade earlier, in 1846, the American Union had gone to war with Mexico, known as the ...