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Characteristics of Underage Drivers Licenses (All States)
October 29th, 2011 | 
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Underage Alcohol Use: Infused Gummy Bears
Although this is nothing ‘new’ it has been getting a lot of press lately. We are posting this only to raise the awareness of the alcohol sellers and servers that control environments where underage persons may use this approach to hide alcohol use.
Here is a link to one of the many articles:
http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=111011drunk
You can do a search on You Tube if you are interested in finding out more.
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Tech-savvy teens swamp police with fake IDs
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
Computer-savvy teenagers are creating millions of fake driver’s licenses despite the holograms and other high-tech security features that states now put on licenses to thwart forgers.
Using the Internet, anyone willing to break a few laws can be a mass producer of fake IDs, the gateways to underage drinking that received new attention in late May, when President Bush’s 19-year-old twin daughters were cited in Texas on charges of illegally ordering alcohol.
Gone are the crude, cut-and-paste fake IDs common a few years ago that were so obviously bogus. They have been replaced with replicas whose detail and accuracy often astonish authorities.
Teenagers who want to skirt the legal drinking age of 21 now can visit Web sites that offer templates or “kits” to make authentic-looking IDs. Using a template, all they need to create a fake license is a computer scan of their snapshot, a color printer and a laminator. Other Web sites, for fees from $9.99 to about $150, will do all the work and send the buyer a finished ID.
Some do-it-yourself sites feature ID templates so sophisticated that users can re-create the holograms, bar codes, shadow pictures and detailed state insignias on modern licenses. A forger also can use basic design software to create a fake ID by scanning a picture of the real license into a computer, altering the birth date, stenciling in the necessary holograms, making a printout and laminating it.
The new fake IDs may not exactly match state-issued ones, but often they’re good enough to fool bartenders, nightclub doormen and, sometimes, police officers.
Fake IDs are “getting so good now that we actually have to use laboratory equipment to detect them,” says Dave Myers of Florida’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco. “The average printer you can buy from Wal-Mart creates a very good-quality license.”
Myers, who teaches cops to spot bogus IDs, says he revises his training manual monthly to keep up with improvements in fake IDs.
During four spring break weeks this year, Myers and his agents staked out bars, restaurants and nightclubs in two Florida beach towns, Panama City and Daytona Beach. Myers said police looked for IDs with flawed holograms and incorrect letter and number codes that are supposed to be known only by police and a state’s motor vehicles department.
They arrested about 350 teenagers for carrying fake IDs and 1,200 for underage drinking and confiscated 10,000 bogus IDs. That’s an indication, Myers says, of the enormous popularity of counterfeit licenses among high school and college students. If you extrapolate the Panama City and Daytona Beach figures, he says, “you’re talking millions and millions” of fake IDs around the country.
Sgt. Jacques Croom, who supervises the alcohol initiatives unit for the police department in Montgomery County, Md., estimates that 50% of underage high school and college students have fake IDs.
Fifteen years ago, fakes typically were “terrible, Exacto-blade jobs,” Croom says. “Now the Internet is huge. Kids can do a great job with scanners and color printers.”
College students make fake IDs “all the time,” says Kendra Murray, 23, of Philadelphia, who graduated in May from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. Murray checked IDs at the door of a bar in Gettysburg. “I’d say it’s very widespread.”
Easiest to copy
Through the Internet, replica driver’s licenses are available from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and territories such as Guam and American Samoa. But police, bartenders and teens say that some states’ licenses are particularly easy to copy because they have relatively few security features. Teenagers now favor licenses from New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, Colorado and Vermont.
Murray says many students she saw had fake Florida or Georgia licenses “because those are the easiest” to make.
Florida’s Myers says that fakes of a particular state’s license will proliferate once a forger breaks the security features and posts a template on the Web. But “New Jersey is by far the No. 1 counterfeit document,” he says. “New Jersey makes a very poor document.”
The code on New Jersey’s license is easily deciphered, and the print is a basic type font. New Jersey officials say the state’s license does include some security features, including a simple hologram. “But of course, anyone with a desktop publishing system can replicate it to some degree,” says Dana Sullivan of the state’s Motor Vehicle Services. He would not discuss other security features.
New Jersey soon will join most other states in adopting more complex licenses. Beginning in 2003, the state’s license will include a bar code and a digital photo. The switch to the new licenses will cost New Jersey about $12 million, Sullivan says.
Police will be able to scan the new licenses through card readers similar to those supermarkets use to ring up purchases. The scanners will link to a database of photographs and other information so police can determine quickly whether a license is legitimate, Sullivan says.
Other states also are moving to new designs. Florida’s magnetic strip license first appeared in 1995. Maine introduced a bar-coded license in 1999. North Carolina began issuing color-coded licenses for minors last year. Maryland plans to switch to vertical licenses for drivers younger than 21.
Myers says it would cost most states no more than $1 per license to improve security. Bars and liquor stores can buy card readers for about $45 each, he says.
Although some makers of fake IDs undoubtedly see upgraded licenses as a new challenge, authorities say they are more likely to turn their focus to states with simpler licenses.
After all, for most young people, the point of having a fake ID is not to assume an older person’s identity. It’s to have an ID that looks real enough in a dimly lit bar to score a drink. And even for criminals looking to steal another person’s identity, a perfect counterfeit license isn’t always necessary.
“Often, you first think about it in terms of a James Bond kind of ID. Will it get you into Fort Knox?” says James Kohm, a lawyer at the Federal Trade Commission, which prosecuted the host of a fake-ID Web site last year under a deceptive trade practices law.
As FTC attorneys said in court, identity stealers and underage drinkers need something passable, not perfect IDs.
A story rooted in the 1980s
Today’s push for more complex driver’s licenses, and the increasingly aggressive efforts to counterfeit them, are rooted in the mid-1980s. In 1984, Congress passed legislation that forced states to either raise their drinking age to 21 (it had been 18 or 19 in most states) or forfeit part of their federal road funding.
Before long, the drinking age was 21 across the United States, and millions of college students suddenly were banned from buying alcohol. The market for fake IDs exploded. At the same time, personal computers were becoming commonplace, and teens immediately began harnessing the technology.
Recently, federal and state lawmakers have responded by cracking down on Web sites with ID templates and by toughening penalties for possessing a fake ID.
A federal law that went into effect in March makes it a felony for Web sites based in the United States to offer templates for fake driver’s licenses. Laws regarding possession and use of fake IDs vary by state.
Those who violate the federal Internet False Identification Prevention Act of 2000 could be sentenced to a year in prison if their template is used to make even one ID. The potential punishment escalates to up to 20 years if a template is used for more than five fake IDs. Recent prosecutions of fake-ID Web sites have cut the number of sites from more than 10,000 to fewer than 2,000, officials say.
The remaining sites walk delicately around the law.
One site offering ID templates is based in the United Arab Emirates, presumably to avoid U.S. jurisdiction under the new federal law. “Here it is!!!” the site says. “The easiest-to-use fake ID template ever produced.”
Using the site’s template, it takes 11 simple steps to create an authentic looking New Jersey driver’s license. A forger needs only a photo-quality inkjet printer, a picture of himself on a blue background scanned into the computer, access to a laminator, photo paper and a laminate pouch. The site suggests purchasing the pouch for $15 through a Canadian Web site called “Beat The Bouncer.”
ID Web sites based in the United States aren’t so brazen. One full-service site that delivers completed fake IDs to its customers is crammed with disclaimers, repeatedly referring to its products as “novelty” or “souvenir” IDs not intended to be passed off as legitimate identification. But the site does include this boast: “All ID cards are professionally designed by ex-DMV staff.”
Meanwhile, Internet message boards geared to bogus licenses offer tips on building a better fake ID.
On the “Fake ID Discussion Board,” there are 41 pages of tips for recreating holograms. “I’ve heard you can use gold eye shadow over a stencil,” writes a messenger known as Ncxvi.
There is much chatter about how easy it is to duplicate the New Jersey driver’s license. “The New Jersey hologram,” one post says, “is not really a genuine hologram. The paint which is used … Interference Gold (Fine). Write that down!”
Smart licenses, smarter kids
For authorities, busting the high-tech fake ID market often means outsmarting a generation that has outpaced them on computers.
“These kids are so smart that it only takes a matter of months for them to copy (a new license) and get it out,” Croom says. “No matter what you do, these kids copy it.”
Nevertheless, Croom says, communities must continue to update their technology while educating teens and parents about the consequences of carrying fake IDs. Croom says he recently caught a teen-ager with a fake New Jersey driver’s license. Under Maryland law banning possession of fake IDs, the boy now faces $1,500 in fines and may lose his driver’s license for a year, Croom says.
Other states have similar penalties for possessing a fake ID, and some are getting tougher. New Jersey, for example, recently made possessing a fake driver’s license a criminal offense rather than a traffic violation. Violators now could face jail time and have their driver’s license suspended for up to two years, Sullivan says.
Despite all the penalties, many bartenders who spot a fake ID simply confiscate it and kick the kid out of the bar. When charges are filed, first-time offenders usually get probation and small fines.
Prosecutions of fake-ID peddlers remain relatively rare. One 19-year-old Tallahassee, Fla., man busted for running a fake-ID site was sentenced to probation and 15 days of picking up trash along highways, Leon County prosecutor Betsy Sinphay says.
The Federal Trade Commission shut down a $100,000-a-year fake-ID business last year when it brought civil unfair and deceptive trade practices charges against a Los Angeles man who had operated a Web site with ID templates. Each of his customers paid $29.99 to download the templates, which they could use to produce fakes “good enough to be used both for identity theft and for underage drinking,” the FTC’s Kohm says. The court banned the man from selling IDs. If he is caught again, he could go to prison.
Despite the stepped-up efforts against fake IDs, most officials acknowledge that teens will continue to find a way to get them.
And some, such as Molly Mitchell, an aide to Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening who focuses on underage drinking, say they believe that more fake-ID crackdowns should focus on adults.
“Even if we do everything we can to make it hard for kids to get fake IDs,” she says, “we still have this huge problem of adults who are willing to provide alcohol to kids who are under 21.”
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Minnesota police test compliance so pay attention to ID cards
This is a case where a bartender checked the minor’s identification but still served the minor a beer. The minor was accompanied by a police officer, known to the bartender as a police officer, and was served a beer. Read more about this compliance failure below:
This opinion will be unpublished and
may not be cited except as provided by
Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (2008).
STATE OF MINNESOTA
IN COURT OF APPEALS
A10-304
In the Matter of On-Sale Liquor License
Held by Cooper’s Restaurant, Inc. d/b/a Cooper’s Restaurant,
4185 South Robert Trail, Eagan, MN 55123.
Filed November 9, 2010
Affirmed
Collins, Judge
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City of Eagan
Robert D. Miller, Minneapolis, Minnesota (for relator Cooper’s Restaurant, Inc.)
Sharon K. Hills, Michael G. Dougherty, Severson, Sheldon, Dougherty & Molenda, P.A.,
Apple Valley, Minnesota (for respondent City of Eagan)
Considered and decided by Bjorkman, Presiding Judge; Kalitowski, Judge; and
Collins, Judge.
U N P U B L I S H E D O P I N I O N
COLLINS, Judge
Relator Cooper’s Restaurant, Inc. (restaurant) challenges the decision of
respondent City of Eagan (city) imposing a civil penalty and suspension of the
restaurant’s liquor license following an administrative hearing. The restaurant concedes
that it sold an alcoholic beverage to an underage person, but contends that the city’s
*
Retired judge of the district court, serving as judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals
by appointment pursuant to Minn. Const. art. VI, § 10. 2
decision is not supported by substantial evidence and is arbitrary and capricious because
the sale was induced by “trickery or deception.” We affirm.
FACTS
In the evening of December 21, 2009, Eagan Police Officer Christopher Meade
went to the restaurant dressed in plain clothes to conduct an alcohol-compliance check;
he was accompanied by Joshua Grubb, an underage purchaser. The restaurant had been
cited for violations of relevant statutes, regulations, or ordinances three times within the
preceding 36 months: twice for selling alcoholic beverages after 1:00 a.m. without having
the requisite special permit and once for selling an alcoholic beverage to an underage
person.
Officer Meade and Grubb entered the restaurant, took seats at the bar, and each
ordered a beer. The bartender recognized Officer Meade from past visits to the
restaurant, and knew him to be a police officer. The bartender asked each man for his
proof-of-age identification. She first examined the Minnesota identification card
produced by Grubb, which showed his date of birth, October 10, 1989, and bore the
legend “UNDER 21” at the top of his photograph. The bartender asked Grubb “if he had
done the 21 shots on his birthday,” and Grubb said, “No.” After looking at Officer
Meade’s Minnesota driver’s license and confirming that he was of-age, the bartender
examined Grubb’s identification card a second time before serving them each a beer.
The restaurant had a card-swipe device, which if used by the bartender would have
scanned Grubb’s identification card and shown that he was 20 years old and underage.
The restaurant also had a bulletin board displaying the date on or before which a person 3
must have been born in order to be 21 or more years old. The bartender, who had nearly
25 years of bartending experience, simply admitted that she “made a total human error”
and “miscalculated” Grubb’s age.
Because the restaurant failed the alcohol-compliance check, the city initiated
administrative proceedings. Officer Meade, Grubb, the bartender, the restaurant’s owner,
and the restaurant’s attorney appeared at the administrative hearing. The restaurant’s
owner argued that the bartender was misled because Grubb’s answer to her question
about drinking 21 shots could be taken as an acknowledgement that he was 21 years old.
But the bartender specifically testified that she never asked Grubb his age or whether he
was 21 years old; she stated that she always looks at the identification-card picture, but
acknowledged that the picture on “[Grubb’s identification card] says under 21.” Her only
explanation was that she “got confused with the birth dates.”
The restaurant’s owner relied on Officer Meade’s presence in support of his
argument that Grubb misrepresented his age, contending that a fair assumption would be
that “they’re to tell the truth.” The bartender agreed that she respected Officer Meade’s
position as a police officer and did not expect him to try to trick her, and she stated that
Officer Meade’s presence “probably” influenced her decision to serve Grubb. The
restaurant’s owner acknowledged that the restaurant had failed alcohol-compliance
checks in the past and that he was aware that alcohol-compliance checks are conducted
by police officers accompanied by underage persons.
The city’s administrative-hearing officer issued a decision concluding that the
restaurant served alcohol to an underage person. The city ordered the restaurant to pay a 4
$2,000 civil penalty and suspended its liquor license for 30 days. This certiorari appeal
followed.
D E C I S I O N
Municipalities have broad discretion in the issuance, regulation, and revocation of
liquor licenses. Hymanson v. City of St. Paul, 329 N.W.2d 324, 326 (Minn. 1983); In re
On-Sale Liquor License, Class B, 763 N.W.2d 359, 365 (Minn. App. 2009). A
municipality may impose a civil penalty and suspend a liquor license based on the
licensee’s failure to comply with an applicable statute, rule, or ordinance relating to
alcoholic beverages. Minn. Stat. § 340A.415 (2008). The suspension may not take effect
until the licensee has been provided with an opportunity for an administrative hearing.
Id. This court may reverse or modify the municipality’s decision if the decision is
arbitrary and capricious, unsupported by substantial evidence, or affected by an error of
law. Minn. Stat. § 14.69 (2008). Reversible error must be shown by the party claiming
it. On-Sale Liquor License, 763 N.W.2d at 366.
Under Minnesota law, it is unlawful to sell or give an alcoholic beverage to a
person under 21 years of age. Minn. Stat. § 340A.503, subd. 2(1) (2008). Proof of age
may be established only by one of the government-issued forms of identification
enumerated in the statute, including a Minnesota identification card. Id., subd. 6(a)
(2008). A person prosecuted for selling an alcoholic beverage to an underage person has
an affirmative defense of reasonable, good-faith reliance only if the reliance is on proof
of age as established by one of the authorized forms of identification. Id., subd. 6(b)5
(2008). With exceptions not relevant here, the act of an employee of a licensed
establishment is deemed to be the act of the licensee. Minn. Stat. § 340A.501 (2008).
Under the Eagan city code, a licensee’s fourth violation within a 36-month period
calls for a $2,000 civil penalty and a 30-day suspension of its license. Eagan, Minn., City
Code § 5.02, subd. 4(G) (2009). A violation includes any failure to comply with any
applicable statute, regulation, or city-code provision relating to alcoholic beverages. Id.,
subd. 4(F) (2009).
The restaurant concedes that it sold an alcoholic beverage to Grubb, who was 20
years old, but argues that “the deceptive manner in which the [alcohol-compliance] check
was conducted rendered the transaction capricious” and that “evidence gained from the
use of trickery or deception” is not substantial evidence. In support of this contention,
the restaurant relies on Wajda v. City of Minneapolis, in which the supreme court stated
that an administrative agency abuses its discretionary power through “unreasonable,
arbitrary, capricious, or fraudulent action.” 310 Minn. 339, 343, 246 N.W.2d 455, 457
(1976) (quotation omitted).
The restaurant suggests that Grubb’s response to the bartender’s question about 21
shots, coupled with Officer Meade’s status as a police officer, amounts to fraudulent
behavior within the meaning of Wajda. We disagree. It is undisputed that: (1) Grubb
produced his valid Minnesota identification card; (2) the bartender failed to utilize the
readily available card-swipe machine, never asked Grubb’s age, and ignored the
qualifying date of birth displayed on the bulletin board; (3) Officer Meade made no
representation as to Grubb’s age; and (4) the restaurant was aware that the city 6
occasionally conducted alcohol-compliance checks with police officers accompanied by
underage persons. These facts negate the suggestion that the illegal sale was induced by
fraudulent behavior on the part of the city.
Moreover, as a matter of law, the sole source of verification of Grubb’s age upon
which the restaurant was entitled to rely was his Minnesota identification card. The card
stated Grubb’s date of birth, showing him to be 20 years old, and bore the legend
“UNDER 21” at the top of his photograph. See Minn. Stat. § 340A.503, subd. 6(b). The
city’s decision to impose a civil penalty and suspend the restaurant’s liquor license is thus
supported by substantial evidence and is not arbitrary and capricious.
Affirmed.
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** Citations from the Illinois Liquor Control Act of 1934, Illinois Vehicle Code and Illinois Constitution
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The Illinois Liquor Control Commission (ILCC) is the regulating agency for the Beverage Alcohol Sellers and Servers Education and Training (BASSET) program. A major part of the BASSET program is to make sellers/servers of alcoholic beverages aware of the laws in the State of Illinois pertaining to sales and service of alcoholic beverages, DUI and Dram Shop laws, victims=rights, and how to properly check ID’s. BASSET training is not mandatory in the State of Illinois, but the ILCC does encourage voluntary participation to promote responsible alcohol service and prevent alcohol-related fatalities.
| MINORS | |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-16 (a)(i) | No one may sell or serve alcohol to any person under the age of 21. |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-16 (a)(iii) | No one may purchase or provide alcohol to anyone under the age of 21. |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-16 (a) (iii) (a) | Violation of the above provisions is a Class A misdemeanor and the sentence shall include, but shall not be limited to a fine of not less than $500. |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-16 (a) (i) (a) | Possession of alcohol in either an opened or closed container by anyone under the age of 21 on any street, highway or public place, can result in a Class B misdemeanor. |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-16 (iii) (a-1) (c) | Any person can be found guilty of a Class A misdemeanor — or Class 4 felony if resulting in death — if he or she allows or knowingly permits a gathering at a residence which he or she occupies of two or more persons where any one or more of the guests is under 21 years of age, the following factors apply:
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| 235 ILCS 5/6-16 (iii)(a-1)(d) | Any person who rents a hotel or motel room while alcoholic beverages are being consumed by anyone under 21 years of age can be found guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and sentenced up to one year in jail and a $2500 fine. The penalty also applies to the hotel or motel. |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-20 | Any consumption, possession, purchase or acceptance of any alcoholic beverage as a gift by any person under the age of 21 is forbidden, except during a religious ceremony or under parental supervision in the privacy of a home. Anyone who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. |
| OTHER IMPORTANT LAWS | |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-16(a)(i) | No one may sell, give or serve alcoholic beverages to any intoxicated person. |
| 625 ILCS 5/11-502(c) | It is prohibited for any driver or passenger to transport, carry, possess or have any alcohol in a motor vehicle except in its original sealed container. |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-24 | Every licensee shall cause his or her license or licenses to be framed and hung in plain view in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises. |
| 235 ILCS 5/6-24a(b) | Every retail license holder must hang a sign that reads:A Government Warning: According to the Surgeon General, Women Should not Drink Alcoholic Beverages During Pregnancy Because of the Risk of Birth Defects. |
| HAPPY HOUR LAWS – 235 ILCS 5/6-28(b) | |
| It is prohibited to: | |
| Serve 2 or more drinks at one time to one person. | |
| Sell, offer or serve to any person an unlimited number of drinks of alcoholic liquor during any set period of time for a fixed price to any person. | |
| Sell, offer to sell or serve any drink of alcoholic liquor to any person on any one date at a reduced price other than that charged to other purchasers of drinks on that day where such reduced price is a promotion to encourage consumption of alcoholic liquor. | |
| Increase the volume of alcoholic liquor contained in a drink, or the size of a drink of alcoholic liquor, without increasing proportionately the price regularly charged for the drink on that day. | |
| Encourage or permit, on the licensed premises, any game or contest which involves drinking alcoholic liquor or the awarding of drinks of alcoholic liquor as prizesfor such game or contest on the licensed premises. | |
| Advertise or promote in any way, whether on or off the licensed premises of the above provisions. | |
| DUI penalties for those 21 and over: | |
| 1st Conviction | A minimum loss of driving privileges for one-year. Imprisonment for a possible one-year term. Up to $2500 in fines. |
| 2nd Conviction | A minimum 5 year loss of driving privileges. Possible imprisonment for one year, but 48 hours mandatory jail time, or 100 hours of community service if in 5 year-period. A $2500 fine. |
| 3rd Conviction | Class 2 felony with a minimum 10 years loss of driving privileges. Possible imprisonment for 3-7 years. If given probation, possible 30 days of community service. A possible fine up to $25,000. |
| DUI penalties for under age of 21 | |
| 1st Conviction | Loss of driving privilges for a minimum of 2 years. A possible one-year prison term. A fine up to $2,500. |
| 2nd Conviction | Revocation of driver’s license for a minimum of 5 years or until the age of 21. Possible imprisonment for one year. Mandatory 2 days jail time or 100 hours community service if in a 5-year period. A fine up to $2,500 |
| 3rd Conviction | Class 2 felony with loss of driving privileges for 10 years. A possible 3-7 years prison term. If givenprobation, possible 30 days of commmunity service. A fine up yo $25,000 |
Preventing underage sales of alcohol begins with properly checking identification. Illinois drivers licenses and identification cards (ID’S) have been redesigned to prevent tampering. The new licenses and ID’s are color coded, consisting of security film and is laminated in plastic to deter any forgery or alteration. Tampering is easier to spot and the new licenses and ID’s are more durable.
If you are not sure of an ID’s authenticity you have the right to refuse service. It would be helpful to have an ID checking guide on the premises of all 50 states.
New, digital driver=s license and ID cards were issued in February of 1998.
- An Illinois drivers license number is located at the top left hand corner with the first initial of the persons last name in front of it followed by 11 digits in red.
- The Illinois logo is blue print. The photos have a blue background and a dark blue box that says either Adrivers licenseds or AID Cardin white. On the top left is written Jesse White- Secretary of State.
- The drivers license expires on the driver(s) birthday.
- On the left side of the driver(s) license and ID, Illinois is printed in blue.
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