Is a registered agent required?
Every LLC must name a registered agent with an in-state street address.
Statute: 805 ILCS 180/1-35. peek at ilga.gov, confirmed October 2026
Who qualifies?
An Illinois resident, or a business authorized to do business in Illinois. The LLC cannot act as its own agent.
If you qualify, you can serve yourself at no cost.
What is inside an agent's price?
Services we rank charge $99 to $149 each year, which adds up to $297 to $447 over three.
State fees stay the same whichever agent you pick.
What does an agent handle for the LLC?
Whatever legal paper is meant for the LLC in Illinois goes to the agent, who passes it along.
What matters is that nothing important sits unnoticed while you are away. Service of process, unpacked
What does the LLC owe the state each year?
Underneath it all, one filing repeats: the Limited Liability Company Annual Report, every year, at $75 each time. The state phrases its deadline like this: before the first day of the entity's anniversary month.
peek at ilsos.gov, confirmed October 2026
Why is the stack in this order?
On what is inside the price (29%), Mainstay Filing comes out ahead.
Five layers set the order: total across three years (34%), what is inside the price (29%), price laid out in the open (14%), how the renewal behaves (12%) and how far it reaches (11%).
Only the first pick holds up in all fifty states, and that counts the day the LLC registers elsewhere.
The five layers