They are taking new proposals from the public re: new IL flag. This hilarious one came from reddit:

[Mister Ed]

7. Isn't that new Minnesota state flag just awful?

I've thought it looked like an especially uninspired corporate logo, but your description of it as a child's play mat seems more apt:



The old flag was pretty, but the emblem at the center contained a tableau that was confusing at best and racist at worst. It seemed as though it might be a commemoration of the Natives being replaced on their land by white settlers:


All they had to do was replace that emblem with something simpler that seemed to better represent Minnesota. Perhaps a loon on a lake under the North Star. But instead we got that awful redesign.

I hope Illinois fares better.