After more than a half-century of having a flag that was often deemed forgettable, Cook County is getting a new banner that features a cleaner layout that plays up the county’s history.
County officials on Tuesday unveiled their pick for the county’s new flag, which was announced on national Flag Day and is known as the “I Will Banner.”by Glenbrook South High School student Drew Duffy, the new flag features a circle of seven-sided red stars on the left and a sideways blue, green and white Y-shaped stripe to the right.
The six stars are each seven-pointed to represent each county region, plus Chicago and the Forest Preserves. There are six stars to represent the county’s founding in 1831; the opening of its flagship hospitals; the department of public health; forest preserves, the Arthur J Audy home for juvenile detainees; and the county’s townships and local governments.
Cook County Commissioner Scott Britton, a flag enthusiast and NAVA member who headed up the county’s selection committee, described the current map as a “seal on a bedsheet, an S.O.B. It’s not visually arresting.”
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