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Illinois license plate: Standard 2017

Issued today 2017 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Illinois Secretary of State, Vehicle Services Department. One of 8 Illinois license plates.

Illinois (United States) license plate, Standard 2017 (2017 to today), sample AB 12345
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example AB 12345 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2017 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #660A10
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
ILLINOIS STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE. The best-specified standard series in midwest-a, and the only one whose DIMENSION, LEGEND, REFLECTORIZATION and LEGIBILITY are all statute-grade.
How numbers are issued
observed AA1 1001 to AF9 9999 at introduction, and EN 76001 to GC 32739 as of 2026-03-18 (secondary)
Replacement
years: 10. evidence: secondary. statutory frame: 625 ILCS 5/3-414.1: 'Registration plates issued for motor vehicles shall be valid for an indefinite term of not less than one year', with discretion in the Secretary of State to issue 2-year or 5-year multi-year plates. The statute sets no replacement cycle; the ten-year programme is administrative.. note: a mandatory ten-year replating was phased in with this base and is reported scheduled to end in 2026 (secondary). Illinois therefore sits at the TOP of AAMVA's 7-10 recommendation, with Florida, against Indiana's reported 7.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 625 ILCS 5/3-412: (a) plate counts per class and the digital-plate alternative; (b) the mandated plate contents including 'Land of Lincoln'; (c) 100-foot legibility, reflectorizing material, and the 6 by 12 inch... https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-625-vehicles/il-st-sect-625-5-3-412.html
  2. ilga.gov https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=062500050K3-412
  3. 625 ILCS 5/3-405.1: the vanity definition ('1 to 7 letters and no numbers or 1, 2, or 3 numbers and no letters'), the enumerated personalized combinations, and the ban on characters, symbols, foreign words and... https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-625-vehicles/il-st-sect-625-5-3-405-1.html
  4. 625 ILCS 5/3-414.1: plates valid for an indefinite term of not less than one year; discretionary 2-year and 5-year multi-year plates https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-625-vehicles/il-st-sect-625-5-3-414-1.html
  5. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Illinois

Before and after

Illinois (United States) license plate, Standard 2001 (2001 to 2017) It replaced Standard 2001 2001 to 2017

This plate in your app

The series id is us-il-standard-2017. 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-2017")'
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