Personally, I hold my license plates to a very specific standard: If I'm not a little bit embarrassed to explain them, they're not good.

Illinois releases its list of rejected license plates, denying more than 550 for being offensive or unreadable in 2025.

Beginning this year, Mississippi has a new standard license plate to replace its tired, yellow version. With the introduction of the new plate, I wanted to reflect on one of my favorite things: custom ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office revealed the 2025 list of rejected vanity and personalized license plate requests, highlighting that while Illinois drivers continue to get ...

Here's a confession: I hate most vanity plates. They're usually dumb, trite, or going for an all-too-obvious joke, like Corvette plates touting the superiority of V8s over forced induction. Yet, my ...

While out on your weekly errands, you'll see many creative vanity license plates. But you won't see vehicles with plates reading "DILF," GLOCK7," or "AYKFM." Those are among the nearly 900 custom ...

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ still praised some of the “inflammatory, profane, offensive or too difficult to read” vanity license plate requests turned down in 2025, a small portion of the ...

The BMV may refuse to issue a PLP containing a combination of letters or numbers, or both, if the following apply: ...

The office of Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has released its annual list of rejected vanity and personalized ...

Clarification: An earlier version of this story had "NARCAN" as one of the license plates rejected in 2022. The data provided by the RMV did not clarify that the license plate was then approved in ...