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    Lawsuit: Illinois secretary of state required Muslim woman to certify when she wears headscarf to receive driver's license

    by Nausheen Husain, Chicago Tribune Aug 29, 2019 3 minutes

    CHICAGO - A Rockford, Ill., woman is suing the Illinois secretary of state in an attempt to change a state rule requiring those who wear a religious head covering in their driver's license photo to also certify that they do not normally remove that head covering in public.

    Maryjane Bicksler, 68, filed the lawsuit this week in Chicago federal court with the help of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

    The suit states that Bicksler, who is Muslim and wears a hijab, went to her local DMV in Rockford to renew her

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