IL registered agent
Illinois. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Illinois code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Illinois does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... having authority upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served: (1) Whenever the corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this State, or (2) Whenever the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.25(b)
The Illinois annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Illinois wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
$75 a year, give or take nothing.
... limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, $75, if filed as required by this Act, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/50-10(b)(11)
Yearly report, corporation
$75 a year, give or take nothing.
... interim annual report, or final transition annual report of a domestic or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10
What Illinois had in mind
What is required
The Illinois code, more or less word for word:
... such registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership authorized to transact business in this State that is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/5.05(b)
What Illinois does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Dissolved, administratively
... dissolve any corporation administratively if: ... (e) it has failed to appoint and maintain a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/12.35(e)
Dissolved, administratively
... any limited liability 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
... 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)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... business 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 agent in Illinois within 60 days after ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 180/45-35(a)(1)(B)
A penalty, in dollars
(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
Locked out of the courthouse
... business in this State without authority to do so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court of this State, until the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/13.70(a)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
What coming back costs
... for reinstatement of a domestic or a foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 805 ILCS 5/15.10(p)
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.