Veterans now have more options for their license plates

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois now offers more license-plate options for veterans.

Until this week, military plates were available only with numeric characters. Now, the plates are available in two formats: vanity, which involves a combination of letters; and personalized, which have a combination of letters and numbers.

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