Mid-America Plate Association
Region of ALPCA
Mid-America Plate Association
Region of ALPCA
If you would like to become a member of ALPCA just click this link here: JOIN! Information about how to join will be on that page.
We are a midwest region of ALPCA and meet four times a year in Northern Illinois. To join our club click here. A great donation auction is held at each event. Registration is $10 and $5 per table.All money raised goes to support the club, our events and activities. Go through your collection and donate plates for the auction and bring a favorite plate to display and/or win an award. You must be either an ALPCA or MAPA member in order to enter our meets.
2023 was a great year for plate meets as we had an extra meet this year in Atwood, In. We will continue next year with five meets starting on February 24, 2024 in Peotone, Illinois. Plan on attending as it will be an excellent meet. Our 2024 MAPA is in the design stage and a form to obtain the plate will be posted later. Please support the club and buy a set or two! We always accept plates for our auctions so dig deep and bring some to the meets. We also have awards for favorite plate and best display. So bring them! Looking forward to an awesome 2024 and plates, plates, plates. Wishing all of you and yours a Happy New Year!
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The upcoming 2023 MAPA meets are:
February 24, 2024,Will County Fairgrounds
710 S. West St
Peotone, IL
April 13, 2024, Stone City VFW Post #2199
124 Stone City Drive
Joliet, IL 60436
May 13, 2023
213 E. Hovey St, Atwood, IN, 46502
Conveniently located between South Bend Indiana and Fort Wayne Indiana
Hotels restaurants located within 10 minutes of Hall in Warsaw Indiana.
August 17, 2024, Wauconda American Legion Hall
515 South Main Street
Wauconda, IL 60084
October 5, 2024, Stone City VFW Post #2199
124 Stone City Drive
Joliet, IL 60436
Check out our new section called meet a member.
Governor JB Pritzker signed HB4434 into law today, expanding the options of professional sports team license plates Illinoisans can choose from at the Secretary of State. The change, which adds the Chicago Fire, the Chicago Sky, and the Chicago Red Stars to the list of options, brings women’s professional sports to the official license plates of Illinois residents for the first time in state history.
St. Louis Cardinals plate coming soon
Three new military motorcycle plates are now available: Combat Action badge, Combat Action Ribbon, and Desert Storm.
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Universal license plates to be issued soon-Monarch butterfly
New redesinged Illini plates now available
Two special plates were auctioned off at our Wauconda meet to celebrate the Illinois bicentennial. These two plates numbered 1818 and 200 were both sold and the other ones will be auctioned at our October meet so don't miss out.
Firefighter motorcycle plates now available
New format for firefighter plates spotted.
New Alzheimers Awareness plate
New autocycle three wheeled vehicle plate option
Route 66 motorcycle plates now available
Chicago Police Memorial motorcycle license plates now available
Revisions already coming to new Illinois license plates
Cubs-themed license plates spike in popularity after World Series
Illinois universal specialty license plate still not in production
New Illinois license plate design revealed
The Capitol dome, the Chicago skyline and one-half of Abraham Lincoln's face will adorn new license plates that will begin hitting the roads in Illinois next year.
Secretary of State Jesse White's office unveiled the new plates on Tuesday and also announced a program to gradually put them on all passenger vehicles -- at no extra cost to drivers -- over the next decade.
White said the replacement program is needed because the plates' reflectivity decreases over time, making it hard for police to see plate numbers.
"This (program) will ensure that plates are appropriately replaced with the ultimate goal being no license plate on the road will be more than 10 years old,” White said in a statement.
At a news conference in Chicago, White called the program "a forward-thinking, long-term solution that does not require a complete replating overhaul, which would cost around $60 million. This replacement program is mindful of Illinois' state budget challenges, while also seeking to remove the oldest plates from our roads."
Passenger vehicle owners who have the oldest license plates will be the first to get the new version. In 2017, passenger plates manufactured in 2000 and 2001 will replaced. In 2018, plates made in 2002 and 2003 will be replaced.
That process will continue until all of the plates are replaced. The program starts over in 2027, replacing the plates issued in 2017. The replacement of "B-Truck" plates, used on some pickup trucks, SUVs and vans, is expected to begin in 2018.
White's office says there are 9 million sets of passenger plates on the road. The office expects to replace about 600,000 sets in the first year.
Vehicle owners will be notified by mail if they qualify for the new license plates, which will be provided at no additional charge. Owners are encouraged to recycle their old plates by taking them to a secretary of state facility and disposing of them in a tamper-proof bin.
Motorists who are not due for a replacement may still request a new license plate in January at cyberdriveillinois.com for a replacement fee of $29. In addition, vehicle owners with license plates manufactured after 2001 that are showing signs of wear and are difficult to read may visit cyberdriveillinois.com to apply for a newly designed plate at no charge.
The redesign of Illinois' main license plate is the first since White's office unveiled the current look in 1999. That 1999 plate design -- consisting of a script "Illinois" above a Lincoln bust in the middle of the plate -- was chosen via an online vote open to Illinois residents.
No vote was held this time. Instead, the secretary of state's office "worked closely with law enforcement and developed a license plate that contains features unique to Illinois and is easy to read," said Henry Haupt, a secretary of state spokesman.
The resulting plate moves the Lincoln image to the left side of the design, getting it out of the way of the letters and numbers on the plate. It also contains white outlines of the Statehouse dome and Chicago's skyline, including the city's iconic Willis Tower.
By Staff and wire reports sj-r.com
Which Chicago Team Has the Most Specialty License Plates on the Road?
CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks are the most popular sports team in Illinois, at least based on license plate preference.
According to the Illinois Secretary of State's office, the Hawks have the No. 1 specialty license plate in the state, with 8,356 plates purchased.
The Blackhawks — who have a bright red plate that features the team logo — beat out all other city sports teams.
The White Sox are next, with 4,893 purchased plates. That figure is perhaps surprisingly more than the Bears (4,519), Cubs (4,393) and Bulls (1,528).
The Blackhawks' plates debuted in 2010, after the team won the Stanley Cup, while the other four Chicago pro sports teams' plates were released in 2011.
"The Chicago Blackhawks license plate was the first in the sports series to be made available to the public, and their fan base embraced the opportunity to purchase the license plates," Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White said in an emailed statement.
The specialty plates are pricey, as much as $330 for first-time vanity plates. Annual renewal is $141 for specialty plates, $42 more than standard plates.
April 22, 2013 6:09am | By Justin Breen, DNAinfo Senior Editor
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