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:
... 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 such registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.05(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... 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 office in this State ...
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
... 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
... 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
... may be revoked by the Secretary of State: ... (e) Upon the failure of the corporation to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this State.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.50(e)
Revocation of foreign authority
... 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 Section 1-35;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
Pecuniary penalty
(2) It has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in Illinois within 60 days of notification of the Secretary of State by the resigning registered agent. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-15
Loss of standing to sue
... to do so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court of this State, until the corporation obtains that authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign corporation, $200.
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.
... 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)
Annual report, corporation
$75 per annum.
... or final transition annual report of a domestic or foreign corporation, $75.
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.