The Illinois Yellow Dot Program made an appearance at the Illinois State Fair, with a chance for new participants to sign up.

The program was launched in 2011. Participants place a yellow sticker on the lower left corner of the driver’s side rear window and fill out a card, which is kept in the glove compartment. That card is there to assist first responders with information concerning medical conditions, medications and allergies.

Visit yellowdotillinois.org to sign up for the program.

in other state news, Secretary of State Jesse White is calling it a career.

Illinois’ longest serving secretary of state, first elected to that post in 1998 after decades of previous public service, is finally retiring – for real this time.

White says he’ll focus on the Jesse White Tumblers, a group he founded in 1959 and which he says has helped more than 16,000 young people in Chicago. He says he won’t completely step away from politics, though.

White won his first election in 1998 with 55 percent of the vote, and easily won reelection four times – garnering well more than 60 percent each time.