REAL ID

The deadline for getting your Real ID in Missouri is approaching, but what happens to you if you miss it? There's no need to panic as there are ways around it.

The deadline to get the Illinois Real ID is now just one month away in May.

This is the worst kind of surprise if you're a believer in democracy and enthusiastically want to let your voice be heard in an election.

I've never claimed to be a math genius, but I've lost count of the number of times there has been a change announced to the ongoing Real ID effort in Illinois and the word is another one could be in the works.

In case you didn't know, there is a deadline approaching in Illinois for you to get your Real ID. That day on the calendar will happen sooner than you think and it's something you need to do - or else.

Towards the end of 2015, it was announced that Illinois and Missouri licenses would no longer comply with federal security guidelines set down in 2005 by the Department of Homeland Security. A few weeks later, it was announced that we could still use the current IDs for air travel through 2018, but that was it...