IL registered agent
Illinois. $7 a year. Shallow end.
The rule is at the bottom of this page. We start with the bill, because that is the part that gets wet first. Every Illinois company names an agent with a real address in the state. We have the address. We keep a bowl at it.
The bill to climb back out
The climb-out fee
... application for reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign corporation, $200.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10(p)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
How Illinois drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Drained by the state
... any corporation 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)
Drained by the state
... (3) it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/35-25(3)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... be revoked by 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 companies: authority pulled
... The foreign limited company has failed to: ... (B) appoint and maintain a registered agent in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
The penalty
... first day of the second month after the anniversary month, a penalty of $100 plus $100 for each year or fraction thereof beginning with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-15
Locked out of the courthouse
... to do so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
The Illinois annual report. Also skippable.
Illinois sends a bill every year to keep your company listed. Here is the bill. Not paying it is a saving of the exact kind we are.
Yearly report, LLC
$75 each year. Every year.
... company or foreign limited liability company, $75, if filed as required ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Yearly report, corporation
$75 each year. Every year.
... interim annual report, or final transition annual report of a domestic or foreign corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10
Do we do that
We are the bowl. The bowl does not do things.
The rule, at the bottom where we left it
What the state asks
The Illinois code, word for word:
... 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 quoted text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Laws move. Puddles do not.