Every plate in the pounds, drawn rather than listed: where they're registered, what format they are, and how the out-of-state share behaves.
Type a plate and pick a state. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
One real plate per state, drawn in that state's colour family.
Every non-Illinois plate currently in the pounds — of them.
L is a letter, # a digit.
Illinois plates are matched against the standard passenger formats; elsewhere, only length is a clue.
Illinois plates short enough to be vanity issues.
Plates are published by the city with every tow — that is what makes “was my car towed” answerable at all. We draw them, but we don’t keep what you search for, and the plate art is our own: colour families and proportions, never a state’s seal or typeface.
Source: Towed Vehicles — Chicago Data Portal. Search a plate.
Illinois · pattern LL#####
Matches a standard Illinois passenger format. Plate art here is our own drawing — colour families and proportions only, not any state’s artwork.