Hospice license plates not selling as petition for them promised

SPRINGFIELD – Lonnie Dirks worked hard to get Illinois to create a new specialty license plate that could raise money for hospice programs.

But, two years after the Secretary of State began offering the hospice plate Dirks designed, only 87 of them have been sold.

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