Formation fee
$150
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-08-06
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Illinois LLC
Illinois sells same day speed without a queue
Illinois prices same day handling for articles of organization in the statute itself, yet publishes no standard processing time for the ordinary lane, a verified absence on this sheet. The annual report comes due before the first day of the anniversary month. The tax card shows another checked absence: no franchise style charge lands on an LLC.
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The assumed name is the recurring detail readers miss: the state registration runs only to a fixed point in the calendar and then renews on a cycle, rather than living indefinitely. Its filers split by business form, the company at the state and others locally. Each renewal window is part of the record the page quotes.
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Annual report
$75
Due Before first day of anniversary month, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-08-06
Franchise tax
none
No recurring state-level tax on an LLC here. The absence is verified against the state, not missing data.
verified absent 2026-08-08
Anonymous LLC
no
Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.
last verified 2026-08-06
no source in the snapshot
Processing time
none published
This state publishes no standard processing time, which is not the same as filing instantly. Expedited formation starts at $100.
verified absent 2026-08-07
no source in the snapshot
Name designators
Must contain "limited liability company," "L.L.C.," or "LLC" (a low-profit company organized under Section 1-26 uses "L3C"). The name may not contain "Corporation," "Corp.," "Incorporated," "Inc.," "Ltd.," "Co.," "Limited Partnership," or "L.P.," and must consist of English-alphabet letters, Arabic or Roman numerals, or symbols the Secretary of State can reproduce.
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: 805 ILCS 180/1-10(a).
last verified 2026-08-04
Name reservation
$25
Optional filing that holds the name for 90 days before you form.
last verified 2026-08-04
DBA
assumed name
LLCs file at the state level for $150; other business forms file with the county.
last verified 2026-07-23
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Illinois attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-09
field 05 carries the date it was observed, not a promise: of the two halves beside it, only the expedited tiers are prices the state commits to
What are the Illinois trade name rules?
Illinois calls it the assumed name, and splits the filing: an LLC registers with the state, while other business forms file locally. The state filing costs $150.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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5 years
The registration runs from the filing date until the first day of the company's anniversary month in the next calendar year evenly divisible by five, then renews for successive five-year terms. Only LLCs and corporations in good standing may adopt an assumed name electronically.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
Registering an assumed name with the Secretary of State discloses the name but grants no exclusive trademark right. It does have a practical effect: a registered assumed name is one of the records in the Section 1-10 distinguishability test, so the state will not register a later entity or assumed name that is not distinguishable from it while yours stays active. County assumed-name certificates filed by sole proprietors carry no statewide protection and are not centrally indexed.
- Where to search existing names
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The Secretary of State's business search returns LLC and corporate assumed names filed with the state, because they share the entity records used for the distinguishability screen. County assumed-name certificates for sole proprietors and partnerships sit in each county clerk's records and are not in the state search.
one record, verified 2026-07-23 · 805 ILCS 180/1-20; 805 ILCS 405/1
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Illinois?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Illinois. The registration costs $150. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$150
Flat statutory filing fee of $150.00 for a foreign limited liability company's application for admission to transact business (805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(1)).
- The official form
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Application for Admission to Transact Business as a Foreign Limited Liability Company
- Filed with
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Illinois Secretary of State
- After registration
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File an annual report with the Secretary of State before the first day of the anniversary month each year and maintain a registered agent with an Illinois business address.
one record, verified 2026-08-08
The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.
Who may serve as the registered agent in Illinois?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Illinois. Illinois lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may also hold the seat.
- An individual as the agent
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Allowed
in the state's words which agent must be an individual resident of this State
- The LLC as its own agent
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Allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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not read at this pin
- Address rule
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"Registered office" means that office maintained by the limited liability company in this State, the address, including street, number, city and county, of which is on file in the office of the Secretary of State, at which, any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law may be served upon the registered agent of the limited liability company.
one record, verified 2026-08-09
The same four answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: registered agent rules for every jurisdiction.
Where do these figures come from?
Every figure on this sheet renders from the pinned dataset snapshot, and each card links the page its own figure came from. This list collects those pages in one place, with the duplicates removed and the agency named.
- Formation and annual report figures https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/organization/llc-instructions.html
- Recurring state tax https://tax.illinois.gov/localgovernments/personal-property-replacement-tax.html
- Naming statute https://www.ilga.gov/Documents/legislation/ilcs/documents/080501800K1-10.htm
- Name reservation https://www.ilsos.gov/publications/business-services/llc.html
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/080501800K50-10.htm
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActName=Limited%20Liability%20Company%20Act.&ActID=2290&ChapterID=65&SeqStart=&ChapAct=FullText
- DBA filing https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/assumed-name-adoptions/llcinstructions.html
- Illinois Secretary of State Business Services https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services.html
- Business entity search https://apps.ilsos.gov/businessentitysearch/
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.