IL registered agent
Registered agent service in Illinois, $37 per year, within tolerance
Illinois expects each company on its register to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state. The expectation is set out below in the state's own language. Our performance against it is rated further down. The rating has been consistent.
The Illinois annual report, an average obligation
Illinois bills each company annually to remain on the register. The amount is below. Paying it is standard practice. Not paying it is also a practice, and the rest of this page describes it.
Annual report charge, LLC
$75 per year. Average.
... of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, $75, if filed as required by this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Annual report charge, corporation
$75 per year. Average.
... interim annual report, or final transition annual report of a domestic or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10
Expectations set by Illinois
Expectation
As set out in the Illinois code:
... is identical with such registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership authorized to transact business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.05(b)
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Service by other means
... of a foreign corporation having authority upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served: (1) Whenever the corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this State, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
Corrective action available to Illinois
Where an agent performs at our level, the state applies the following. Quoted from the code without adjustment, because adjusting it would take effort we have allocated elsewhere.
Dissolution, administrative
... may dissolve any corporation administratively if: ... (e) it has failed to appoint and maintain a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/12.35(e)
Dissolution, administrative
... any limited liability company administratively if: ... (3) it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/35-25(3)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State: ... (e) Upon the failure of the corporation to appoint ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.50(e)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State if: (1) The foreign limited company has failed to: ... (B) appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois within 60 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
Penalty, civil
... (1) For failure or refusal to comply with subsection (a) of this Section before the first day of the second month after the anniversary month, a penalty of $100 plus $100 for each year or fraction thereof beginning with the second year of delinquency until returned to good standing or until reinstatement is effected.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-15
Standing in court withdrawn
... business in this State without authority to do so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court of this State, until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... for reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10(p)
Quoted statutory text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and re-checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are revised at their own pace. This page is revised at ours.