Illinois Drivers Love This Team’s License Plate More Than Any Other

Vanity plates can be fun. They provide an opportunity for you to show off your individuality beyond your car’s make and model. They are also a more serious statement for sports fans than a window decal or bumper sticker. Plus, they provide extra revenue for the state.

Think you know which teams fans show off more in Illinois on their vehicles?

In the state of Illinois, there are plenty of sports teams that you can get vanity license plates for. From the Chicago Bulls, to the Fighting Illini, to the Chicago Bears or Bradley University or Augustana College. Included on the list from the Illinois Secretary of State is also out of state brands: Notre Dame and the St. Louis Cardinals. You might be surprised at which team Illinois vanity plate car owners purchase the most. Chicago Blackhawks? The Chicago Cubs? Northwestern University? Nope to all of them. The number one plate, and it’s not even really close, is the Chicago White Sox.

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If you think there’s a lower price on ordering Chicago White Sox plates, you’d be wrong. The cost for personalized or vanity plates for Pro Sports or colleges in Illinois is the same across the board. The White Sox fans are just flexing harder than any other team or school in Illinois, and have been every year for over a decade.

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Just under 37,000 Illinois drivers have White Sox license plates. That’s almost triple Cubs plates, and 20,000 more than the next most popular sports plates – The Blackhawks, who have over 16,000 team plates out there on the streets. The University of Illinois is far and away the school with the most vanity plates out there with 6,618. That is almost the total of all the other schools on the list combined, and would be more than the other schools minus Notre Dame (who have over 1000 plates purchased).