So far, about 410,000 Real IDs have been issued in Illinois. If you have a passport or one of the other approved forms of ID, “You already have a Real ID-compliant document,” says Dave Druker, spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, and don’t need to replace your driver’s license with a new Real ID. passports and military IDs are fine for that, too. passport, passport card or military ID won’t need a Real ID to fly even after the federal Department of Homeland Security starts requiring federally approved identification to board flights.įederally approved IDs also will be required to enter secure federal buildings - such as the Dirksen Federal Building in the Loop - but U.S. But it isn’t the only one, which many people don’t realize, so they’ve been streaming into driver’s license centers, eager to get one.

The problem? Too many people are showing up wanting one of the new cards - which many don’t even need, according to Secretary of State’s officials.Ī Real ID will be one of the acceptable forms of identification required to fly out of all U.S. on a Friday, and a security guard was telling people who wanted to get one of the new, specially marked Real ID cards that no more spots were available to do so for the rest of the day, which lately has become a widespread problem at driver’s license centers in Chicago and the suburbs. “When I got there, there was a line out the door,” says Coleman, who lives in Hinsdale and recently moved back to Illinois from Florida. She succeeded - but only after an epic three-and-a-half hour ordeal at an Illinois Secretary of State driver services facility in Lombard in late October.

All Judith Coleman wanted to do was change the address on her driver’s license and get a new license plate.

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