Yesterday I checked to see if there were any Cubs related personalized license plates available for Illinois plates.

Our main searches were for plates with "Cubs" and a number in it. Combinations of "Cubs" and another word was not researched much. Okay, I tried "Go Cubs" and none of those were available and that's about it.

If you have a mini-van, you could choose to have either a car plate or truck plate.

With personalized plates, truck plates have the number in front of the word, car plates end with the number. Illinois permits a limit of 7 characters in their plates, so with CUBS, there are only 3 characters that can be added.

I'm told that plates with 4 letters and then numbers are not charged the higher personalized plate rate. Those just cost the same as a regular plate. That's something to look into. We can have "Cubs" license plates without paying extra for a personalized plate!

As of yesterday, here is what was available in truck plates:

18 Cubs
19 Cubs
20 Cubs

35 Cubs
36 Cubs
40 Cubs
48 Cubs
49 Cubs
51 Cubs
52 Cubs
53 Cubs
54 Cubs
55 Cubs
57 Cubs
59 Cubs
63 Cubs

70 Cubs
76 Cubs
81 Cubs
82 Cubs
90 Cubs
97 Cubs
98 Cubs

There were far fewer car plates available, as we had to get into 3 digits to find any available.

Cubs 126
Cubs 127
Cubs 129
Cubs 130
Cubs 137
Cubs 138
Cubs 140
Cubs 142
Cubs 146
Cubs 147
Cubs 151
Cubs 152
Cubs 154
Cubs 156
Cubs 165
Cubs 160
Cubs 171
Cubs 173
Cubs 174
Cubs 177
Cubs 178
Cubs 179
Cubs 180
Cubs 181
Cubs 182
Cubs 186
Cubs 188
Cubs 191
Cubs 192
Cubs 193
Cubs 194
Cubs 195
Cubs 196
Cubs 197
Cubs 198
Cubs 199

And that's as far as we searched.

A friend of mine has a website where anyone can email in photos of license plates.

Here are some Cubs related ones:

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=204601...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=225583...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=261889...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=231736...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=175434...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=160895...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=128633...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=236573...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=216401...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=198162...

http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=153200...

Old WGN
http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=113222...

Cubs Year
http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=859885

Not Cubs related, but for fun, try reading the license plate cover.
http://bumpers.textamerica.com/?r=202444...

License Plate Guide
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/depart...

I sent this info to Ron and Pat. Let me know if they mention it during a game broadcast.

Diana

You're invited to visit my Cubs photos website if you wish.
http://pages.prodigy.net/chicagocubs