Get a load of your new, harder-to-fake driver's licenses

The state of Illinois is redesigning its driver's licenses to make it harder to produce fake IDs.

New security features include two pictures instead of one, and a motorist's date of birth now will be listed in two places. Officials say the graphics on the cards also are hard to duplicate.

"We are determined to combat fraud and identity theft," Secretary of State Jesse White said.

The new licenses and state ID cards already are available at one secretary of state's office in Melrose Park. All licensing facilities should have them by the end of January.

People with valid licenses don't need to get the new ones until their old ones expire.

White said there are about 12 million licenses and state IDs in circulation.