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:
... authorized to transact business in this State that is authorized by its statement of purpose to act as such agent, having a business office ...
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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Annual report tag, corporation
$75 a year, tax not included.
... annual 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/12.35(e)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois in accordance ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/35-25(3)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... the Secretary of State: ... (e) Upon the failure of the corporation to appoint and maintain a registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.50(e)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... (B) appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois within 60 days after a registered agent's notice of resignation under Section 1-35;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
Penalty, priced by the state
... after the anniversary month, a penalty of $100 plus $100 for each year or fraction thereof beginning with the second year of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-15
No entry to the courthouse
... so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court of this State, until the corporation ...
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
... 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 office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... application for reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign corporation, $200.
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.