US EditionIL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias reveals list of 2025 rejected license plates
Illinois Secretary of State rejected 543 vanity plate requests for being offensive or unreadable, adding to a permanent prohibited list now exceeding 8,500 entries.
- On Dec 22, 2025, the Illinois Secretary of State's office published its annual rejected vanity plate list for the 2025 plate year, adding 543 letter-and-number combinations to the permanent prohibited list.
- Under Illinois law, the Illinois Secretary of State's office denied more than 550 vanity and personalized plate applicants for inflammatory, profane, offensive, or illegible submissions.
- Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois Secretary of State, read several rejected plates aloud in a video, including BRICKED, ICUP, IBPOOPN, PRIUSSY and TYPESHT, and said, `As always, go ahead and get creative, but please keep it clean and avoid ending up on the naughty list.`
- The state's permanent prohibited list now totals 8,558 entries, affecting nearly 800,000 vehicles statewide that display customizable plates with a $47 fee for combination plates.
- Residents can check availability and apply through the Pick-a-Plate tool at ilsos.gov, where illegible combos that could confuse law enforcement are flagged and rejected.
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Illinois Secretary of State Releases 2025 List of Rejected Vanity License Plates
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IBPOOPN, TYPESHT, BRICKED: Here Are 2025's Rejected Illinois License Plates
CHICAGO — From “IBPOOPN” to “TYPESHT,” Illinois drivers submitted tens of thousands of vanity license plate requests this year, including hundreds that never made it past state reviewers. Listen 🎧 The Secretary of State’s office received 55,690 vanity and personalized license plate requests this year. More than 550 were denied under state law for being inflammatory, profane, offensive or too difficult to read, according to a press release from…
'IBPOOPN' and 'ICUP' among 550 license plates rejected by Illinois secretary of state
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