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In less than one year, Illinois residents 18 and older will be required to have a Real ID card in order to board planes and to enter certain federal facilities.
For Illinois, REAL IDs look similar to that of a regular, standard Illinois driver's license, but with one key difference – a gold star in the upper right denoting the special nature of the ID.
When is the Real ID deadline? Currently, the Real ID deadline is set for May 7, 2025. That means that as of May 8, 2025, all domestic flight travelers will need a Real ID as identification to get ...
The Real ID Act of 2005 (stylized as REAL ID Act of 2005) is an Act of Congress that establishes requirements that driver licenses and identification cards issued by U.S. states and territories must satisfy to be accepted for accessing federal government facilities, nuclear power plants, and for boarding airline flights in the United States.
For a state to comply with Real ID, licenses and ID cards issued from that state must be approved by DHS to meet Real ID requirements. States can choose to issue both regular licenses and ID cards as well as Real IDs, but any non-Real ID must be marked "Not for Federal Identification". Real IDs are normally valid for eight years.
Beginning in May, you'll need a Real ID to fly, unless you have a passport. Here's what you'll need, and how to tell if you have a Real ID.
Information about the Real ID requirements posted at the Secretary of State's driver's license facility in the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, Ill. on March 27, 2019.
Any traveler over the age of 18 that does not have another TSA-approved form of identification to fly domestically must have a Real ID compliant identification card or driver's license by May 7, 2025.