Alumni and other supporters of the DePaul community will now be able to show their school pride on their cars.  Beginning in 2011, the office of Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White will offer vanity and personalized license plates bearing DePaul University’s name and its distinctive “tree of wisdom” logo.

For a fee of $69, motorists with current Illinois license plates can swap them for the new DePaul-branded plates. Prices vary for vanity and personalized license plates.  For each DePaul license plate purchased, the university will receive $25 dollars for its scholarship funds. Secretary White announced the program while presenting an honorary license plate to DePaul during half-time ceremonies of the Blue Demons Dec. 14 game at Allstate Arena.

“I expect this wonderful license plate to be one of the best selling license plates we (offer),” said White at the unveiling event.  “It’s a win-win for all of us.”

DePaul Alumni Relations will be sending out information on the program early in 2011 to its 140,000 alumni, the majority of whom live in the Chicago area.

Detailed information on the program is available at:

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/pdf_publications/vsd553.pdf