SPRINGFIELD -- Drivers in Illinois would only be required to have one license plate on their vehicle, under legislation pending in the Illinois House. The proposed law would require drivers to ...

The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate ...

Data on what states have an Illinois-style prohibition on license-plate data sharing are not readily available. However, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Illinois is one of 22 states and ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department for allegedly sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias spoke Thursday morning on reports that Texas police illegally accessed Illinois automatic license plate reader data to track down a ...

The technology, called Automatic License Plate Recognition, is helpful in tracking stolen vehicles or carjackings, missing persons and in other authorized cases.