Starting Wednesday, Illinois residents will be able to use their iPhones to show their driver’s license at select airports, restaurants and bars.

Under a major digital shift that Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias cast on Tuesday as a long-promised modernization of government services, Illinois residents will be able to add their state driver’s license or state ID to their Apple Wallets . Mobile IDs will expand to Android users within the next few months or sometime next year, he said.

“Our goal has been simple: bring government into the 21st century, and meet people where they are,” Giannoulias said at an event in West Town that resembled the launch of a new iPhone as much as it did a state press conference. “Today, we take another major leap forward.”

Illinoisans will still have t

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