Perhaps the second most challenging piece of my grant applications (the Artist Statement part being the most challenging) is getting an Illinois Driver's license. Since I'm applying for two grants that are for Chicago residents only, I have to prove that I live in the city by showing an ID with my current address.
I still have a New Mexico driver's license even though it's been 3 years since I lived there. I hate going to the DMV and resist it for as long as I can get away with. I know technically you are supposed to get a new license as soon as you move to a new state, but then they shouldn't make it so hard to get one.
Yesterday I went down the DMV to get my new license. I expected difficulty so I made sure to have everything I could possibly need in the correct format and just as they asked for. I even printed the list of acceptable documents to prove your identity off the Illinois DMV website and brought it with me. I had my four documents from the four categories but to no great suprise, they said they were unacceptable. Even though the website asked for an"Official High School Transcripts" as a proof of your date of birth, when I got there one person decided they wouldn't accept out of state transcripts. They wanted me to have gone to Chicago Public School.
What was frustrating about this is that two people said they thought it was fine, but when the guy helping me went to talk to his supervisor to check if he could use my transcript which had the name "Ginny" on it (he didn't believe me when I told him Ginny was short for Virginia- he thought I was trying to pull a fast one) he found out that "Ginny" wasn't a problem, but California transcripts are.
I expect to go back to the DMV once I receive a birth certificate and run into another problem and I expect this will happen at least 4 times. I expect this because this happens EVERY TIME I try to get a new license. That's why I avoid it all costs.
You'd think they'd want to just take my $30 and give me the license.
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