SPRINGFIELD — Specialty license plates promoting Chicago and St. Louis professional sports teams have contributed $13 million to public schools. Secretary of State Jesse White says there are 71,299 license plates on the road in Illinois featuring the logos of Chicago’s NFL Bears, hockey Blackhawks, NBA Bulls and baseball’s Cubs and White Sox as well
SPRINGFIELD — Specialty license plates promoting Chicago and St. Louis professional sports teams have contributed $13 million to public schools.
Secretary of State Jesse White says there are 71,299 license plates on the road in Illinois featuring the logos of Chicago’s NFL Bears, hockey Blackhawks, NBA Bulls and baseball’s Cubs and White Sox as well as the baseball Cardinals of St. Louis.
Available for order online at a premium of $69 each, $25 goes to public schools in the program made law in 2002. Since taking effect in 2010, the program has produced just over $13 million for schools.
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Cubs fans will be disappointed to learn that White Sox plates are far outpacing those for the north-sider, and tags for the Bulls haven’t kept pace with the out-of-state Cardinals.
The scorecard reads: White Sox, 21,890; Blackhawks, 19,848; Cubs, 13,970; Bears, 8,620; Cardinals, 3,555 and Bulls, 3,416.
White noted that Cardinals’ purchases in Illinois have topped those in the Redbirds’ home state of Missouri, which has distributed 1,214.
Photos: Remembering 9/11
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FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, people run away from a collapsing World Trade Center tower in New York. Al-Qaida’s 9/11 attacks against the U.S. killed almost 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
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FILE – In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, smoke rises from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers, in New York City. The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped how the U.S. is observing the anniversary of 9/11. The terror attacks’ 19th anniversary will be marked Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, by dueling ceremonies at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza and a corner nearby in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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A beam of light is seen near to the Lincoln Memorial, as part of the Towers of Light Tribute marking the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Former President George W. Bush places a wreath as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, right, watches, on the grounds of the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in observance of the 18th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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This undated photo provided by the FBI shows damage to the Pentagon caused during the 9/11 attacks. The FBI released a group of photos on March 30, 2017, showing the aftermath of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. (FBI via AP)
FBI 9/11 Pentagon Photos
This undated photo provided by the FBI shows damage to the Pentagon caused during the 9/11 attacks. The FBI released a group of photos on March 30, 2017, showing the aftermath of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. (FBI via AP)
Virus Outbreak National Traumas
FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, people run away from a collapsing World Trade Center tower in New York. Al-Qaida’s 9/11 attacks against the U.S. killed almost 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
Sept 11 Anniversary
FILE – In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, smoke rises from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers, in New York City. The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped how the U.S. is observing the anniversary of 9/11. The terror attacks’ 19th anniversary will be marked Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, by dueling ceremonies at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza and a corner nearby in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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FILE – In this Sept. 11, 2014, file photo, a woman places flowers in the inscribed names along the edge of the North Pool during memorial observances on the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped how the U.S. is observing the anniversary of 9/11. The terror attacks’ 19th anniversary will be marked Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, by dueling ceremonies at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza and a corner nearby in New York. (AP Photo/Justin Lane, Pool, File)
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