IL registered agent
Illinois registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Illinois makes every corporation and LLC keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state, and it wrote down what that agent has to do. The writing is quoted below. Our contribution to it is a price tag.
What Illinois puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Illinois code, no markdown:
... or limited liability partnership authorized to transact business in this State that is authorized by its statement of purpose to act as such agent, having a business office identical with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.05(b)
The Illinois annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Illinois asks for a payment to keep the company on its shelf. The tag is below. Leaving it in the cart is a saving in exactly the way we are.
Annual report tag, LLC
$75 a year, tax not included.
... or foreign limited liability company, $75, if filed as required by this Act, plus a penalty if ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Annual report tag, corporation
$75 a year, tax not included.
... report, or final transition annual report of a domestic or foreign corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10
The restocking fee, as charged by Illinois
When the agent on file is an empty shelf, the state has a checklist. It is quoted here without our commentary, which would only have been about the price.
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... administratively if: ... (e) it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/12.35(e)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... administratively if: ... (3) it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois in accordance with the provisions of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/35-25(3)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... State may be revoked by the Secretary of State: ... (e) Upon the failure of the corporation to appoint and maintain a registered agent in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.50(e)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... of State if: (1) The foreign limited company has failed to: ... (B) appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois within 60 days after a registered agent's notice of resignation under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
Penalty, priced by the state
... (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
No entry to the courthouse
... authority to do so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court of this State, until the corporation obtains that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
Our end of the deal
Nineteen dollars. That was our end. The rest of the deal is on backorder.
Lawsuits, when the aisle is empty
Service, rerouted
... corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this State, or (2) Whenever the corporation's registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10(p)
Statute text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, then compared with the state's own text on 2026-08-10. Codes get restocked. This page does not.