IL registered agent
Illinois registered agent service, $5 a year
Illinois requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Illinois law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Illinois requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Illinois code:
A registered agent, which agent may be either an individual, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.05(b)
How we comply
We don't.
What Illinois does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
The Secretary of State may dissolve any corporation administratively if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/12.35(e)
Administrative dissolution
The Secretary of State may dissolve any limited liability company administratively if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/35-25(3)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.50(e)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The admission of a foreign limited liability company to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State if: (1) The foreign limited company has failed to: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
Civil penalty
(2) It has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois within 60 days of notification of the Secretary of State by the resigning registered agent. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-15
No access to the courts
No foreign corporation transacting business in this State without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Filing an application for reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10(p)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
The Secretary of State shall be irrevocably appointed as an agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
One more thing to skip: the Illinois annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Illinois charges the following to keep your company on its books each year. Skipping it saves the whole amount, right up until it does not.
Annual report fee, LLC
$75 a year.
Filing an annual report of a limited liability company or foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Annual report fee, corporation
$75 a year.
Filing an annual report, interim annual report, or final transition ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.