IL registered agent
Registered agent service in Illinois. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Illinois company must appoint a registered agent at a street address in the state. What follows is the statute, quoted where it matters, and our position on it, which is brief.
The statutory requirement in Illinois
Requirement
The Illinois code provides:
... identical with such registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership authorized ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.05(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... a foreign corporation having authority upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served: (1) Whenever the corporation shall fail ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
Enforcement in Illinois
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... of State may dissolve any corporation administratively if: ... (e) it has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this State;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/12.35(e)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... may dissolve any limited liability company administratively if: ... (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)
Revocation of foreign authority
... corporation to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State: ... (e) Upon the failure of the corporation to appoint and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.50(e)
Revocation of foreign authority
... in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State if: (1) The foreign limited company has failed to: ... (B) appoint and maintain a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
Pecuniary penalty
... State by the resigning registered agent. ... (1) For failure or refusal to comply with subsection (a) of this Section before ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-15
Loss of standing to sue
... business in this State without authority to do so is permitted ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... an application for reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10(p)
The Illinois annual report, which you may also decline
Illinois levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.
Annual report, limited liability company
$75 per annum.
... report of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, $75, if filed as required by this Act, plus a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Annual report, corporation
$75 per annum.
... annual report, interim annual report, or final transition annual report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10
Our position
We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.
Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.