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Vanity License Plates


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As Secretary of State, I am proud to offer you the opportunity to express yourself through vanity or personalized license plates. These plates allow you to be creative, say something special and help support an important cause.

The sale of these plates helps support highway maintenance as well as preserve our state parks, raise money for violence prevention and promote organ donor awareness.

I encourage you to join the thousands of Illinois drivers who have expressed their individuality by purchasing vanity and personalized license plates.

Vanity Plate Brochure | Apply for Vanity Plates


Important Facts

  • No refund or adjustment will be made for a change of choice or spacing after a plate has been ordered, or if the request form is incorrectly completed.
  • The Secretary of State’s office is authorized to recall a plate that is determined to be obscene or offensive.
  • All request forms should indicate whether or not you want the Secretary of State to assign one of your choices with the next available number if your exact request is unavailable.
  • If you wish to submit more than three requests, attach additional selections to the request form.
  • Numbers are required to precede letters on personalized B-Truck, RV, RT, Antique Vehicle and Antique Motorcycle plates.
  • If you want a space between letters, please indicate with a slash mark. An automatic space isrequired between letters and numbers. Spacing varies with the type of plates requested. Propercompletion of the form is the customer's responsibility.

Do Not

  • Intermix letters and numbers
  • Use a space between numbers
  • Use lower-case letters
  • Use characters, symbols, foreign words or symbols of punctuation, such as dashes or periods
  • Select obscene or offensive combinations

Fees

Initial Fees

  • $94
    Agriculture in the Classroom, America Remembers, Antique Vehicle, B-truck, Collegiate*, Eagle Scout, Education, Environmental, Firefighters Memorial, Illinois Route 66, Illinois Pan Hellenic, Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, Mammogram, Master Mason, Organ Donor, Park District Youth Program, Passenger, Persons with Disabilities, Pet Friendly, Police Memorial, Prevent Violence, Recreational Vehicle (up to 8,000 lbs.), Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Sporting Series and Support Youth Golf.
  • A $29 replacement fee is assessed to all plate switches, with the exception of Motorcycle and Recreational Trailer (RT) plates, which have a $26 replacement fee.
  • A $13 surcharge is assessed to the renewal fee.

Newly Acquired Vehicle

  • $237*
    ($143 title/registration fee + $94 Vanity fee)

* Speciality license plates have an extra speciality plate fee.

* Illinois State University, Eastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, Notre Dame, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois (Urbana), University of Illinois (Springfield) and Western Illinois University are the only license plates in the Collegiate series available as vanity at this time.

Military License Plates—Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Armed Forces Reserves, Armed Forces Retired, Bronze Star, Disabled Veteran, Ex-Prisoner, Gold Star, Illinois National Guard, Iraq Campaign Medal, Korean War Veteran, Marine Corps, Pearl Harbor Survivor, Purple Heart, Silver Star, Universal Veteran, Universal Veteran Motorcycle, Vietnam Veteran, and World War II Veteran do not require the extra-personalized license plates fee.

Availability

Antique Vehicle, Passenger, B-truck, Recreational Trailer and Recreational Vehicle

  • Numbers - 1 through 999


  • or
  • Letters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7

America Remembers, Environmental, Motorcycle, Persons with Disabilities, Prevent Violence and University of Illinois (Urbana)

  • Numbers - 1 through 999


  • or
  • Letters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6

Agriculture in the Classroom, Antique Motorcycle, Eagle Scout, Education, Eastern Illinois University, Firefighters Memorial, Illinois State University, Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, Mammogram, Northern Illinois University, Notre Dame, Organ Donor, Park District Youth Program, Pet Friendly, Police Memorial, Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Support Youth Golf, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois (Springfield), and Western Illinois University

  • Numbers - 1 through 999


  • or
  • Letters 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5

Firefighter, Illinois Route 66, Illinois Pan Hellenic, Master Mason, Military and Sporting Series

  • Numbers - 1 through 999


  • or
  • Letters 1, 2, 3 or 4

Renewal Methods

License plate registration application forms may be obtained in person at most Secretary of State facilities, by mail or by calling
800-252-8980.


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