Illinois license plate: Standard 2001
Retired 2001 to 2017. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Illinois Secretary of State, Vehicle Services Department. One of 8 Illinois license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999 9999, for example980 9382(9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2001 to 2017. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- Unlike Ohio and Indiana, where consecutive bases share a grammar, ILLINOIS CHANGED FORMAT AT THE BASE BOUNDARY, all-numeric 123 4567 gave way to LL 99999. Worth knowing before a parse API generalises the opposite lesson from Ohio.
- How numbers are issued
- observed 100 0001 to 999 9999 (secondary)
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Illinois
- The same statutory frame, dimensions, reflectorizing, 100-foot legibility and the 'Land of Lincoln' legend, governed this base https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-625-vehicles/il-st-sect-625-5-3-412.html
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-il-standard-2001. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Illinois's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-il \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-il-standard-2001")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-il/us-il-standard-2001.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-il/us-il-standard-2001/template.svg
