IL registered agent
Illinois. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Illinois makes every company it registers name a registered agent at a street address inside its borders. We start with what the state does when that agent is us, then work back up to what it asked for in the first place.
What Illinois pours on a company whose agent is us
The remedies come first on this page because they are the part that matters. Quoted from the code. We added nothing, not even water.
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... dissolve any corporation administratively if: ... (e) it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/12.35(e)
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... company administratively if: ... (3) it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/35-25(3)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... State may be revoked by the Secretary of State: ... (e) Upon the failure of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.50(e)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... (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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-15
Locked out of the courthouse
... without authority to do so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Illinois asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Illinois code, undiluted:
... company, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership authorized to transact business in this State that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.05(b)
The Illinois annual report, which can also be left to settle
Illinois charges a yearly amount to keep a company on its books. Here it is. Leaving it unpaid saves the whole amount, in exactly the way the rest of this site saves you money.
Yearly report fee for an LLC
$75 each year, down the drain.
... limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, $75, if filed as required by this Act, plus a penalty if delinquent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$75 each year, down the drain.
... report, interim annual report, or final transition annual report of a domestic or foreign corporation, $75.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10
The refill fee
The refill fee
... application for reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10(p)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... served: (1) Whenever the corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
Statute text as captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked line by line against the state code on 2026-08-10. The code moves like water. This page sits.