It is. It also harkens to the old Cook County seal which also included the river.
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I remember a 99 percent invisible episode that talked about Flag design; the basic litmus test is that a grade schooler should be able to reproduce it accurately.
Looks like the old Amtrak symbol.
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North and south branches!
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Oh my, as I said,
Now counties have flags? 
I’m suspicious along the lines of Divegirl that flags are a make-work program for graphic designers and flag makers.
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Well if Cook County didn’t have a flag then DuPage county could come along and stake a claim, and nobody’s wants that!
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Cities have flags. Some had had them for centuries.
Think I may design one for myself.
Philadelphia is both a city and a county. 1895.
Even boroughs have flags.
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If we didn’t have lots and lots of flags, what would all the flagpoles do?
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Tetherball for giants?
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Also, @KathyPartdeux, absolutely yes. Let’s make some room on some flagpoles.
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If Minnesota puts Bigfoot on their flag they can expect an immediate declaration of war from both Washington and Oregon.
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… there’s plenty of Bigfoot for everyone
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The flag of my people looks black because it is only visible in UV wavelengths.
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Do not tr0ll the tetrapod taxonomists. That never ends well.
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I mean, indirectly? It takes up the motive of Scandinavian flags, which of course do feature Christian crosses, but the goal here seems to be to highlight Minnesota’s Scandinavian heritage, as with a few others of the designs.
Although, I don’t know whether highlighting one particular group of immigrants is a good idea. If they went by numbers, it would have to be a German flag anyway, like for most US states.
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That makes sense for flags, but historically seals were supposed to be hard to forge, and keeping ornate or complex designs in line with that tradition seems reasonable.
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It’s almost like seals and flags service different purposes, and putting one on the other defeats the purpose of both.
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As an outsider, I’m unfamiliar with that seal.
But I have to ask, what’s with the little red noddy hat?
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It’s a Jacobin cap from the French Revolution, which ultimately goes back the the Phrygian Cap of antiquity
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