Cook County revealed a new flag, the result of a design contest that was open to students from the county's 500-plus high schools.
A Y shape that symbolizes the Chicago River's split at Wolf Point anchors the new flag. Its green outline symbolizes riverbanks, nature and the county's forest preserves.
Six red stars on the flag symbolize the founding of Cook County, founding of Cook County Health, founding of Cook County Department of Public Health, founding of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, and the importance of townships and local government. And the color of the stars represents the color of social change.
It was important that the flag meet vexillological standards , namely that the design be simple, meaningful and easy to remember, with only a few colors and no words.An appointed flag advisory panel narrowed the selection to six flags in March. The panel is made up of historians, Cook County Board commissioners, museum directors and other high-level county officials.
Finalists were paired with volunteer mentors that are professional designers. They helped refine and formalize the students' designs.The search for a new flag began in December 2019 as a global pandemic was starting across the globe, and the selection process has been delayed several times because of statewide shutdowns."I was obsessed with a book about world flags my mom got for me when I was little. The world was shut down when I designed this flag, and it became a passion project.
The effort to redo the flag was spearheaded by Commissioner Scott Britton of Glenview and Cook County historian Matthew DeLeon.The new flag will first be raised later this summer in a ceremony at Daley Plaza.
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