Many Illinois residents will be able to store their driver’s licenses and IDs on their cellphones starting Wednesday, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced.

Digital IDs will first be available for iPhones and Apple Watches via the Apple Wallet app, and the new mobile IDs “will soon expand” to Google and Samsung wallets for Android devices, Giannoulias said during a West Loop news conference Tuesday morning.

Many businesses and other entities — including Transportation Security Administration agents at the city’s airports and more than 250 others nationwide — will be equipped to accept and scan digital IDs. A mobile verifier app will also be available for those businesses on Wednesday.

“This is modernization that makes sense: innovation that protects your privacy, saves

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