Updated September 12, 2026. Quick answer: In Illinois, this document is called a Certificate of Good Standing, issued by the Secretary of State (Department of Business Services, Limited Liability Division). $25.00 for a Routine Certificate of Good Standing, per the Secretary of State’s own Form LLC-50.25 (‘LLC Request Form for Certificates of Good Standing and/or Certified Copies of Documents’): ‘Routine Certificate of Good Standing … $25.’ The identical $25 figure for furnishing a certificate is also codified at 805 ILCS 180/50-10(a)(22) of the Illinois Limited Liability Company Act: ‘For furnishing a copy or certified copy of any document, instrument, or paper relating to a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, or for a certificate, $25.’
What it’s called and who issues it
Illinois calls this document a Certificate of Good Standing, issued by the Secretary of State (Department of Business Services, Limited Liability Division).
The fee
| Standard fee | $25.00 |
| Full fee detail | $25.00 for a Routine Certificate of Good Standing, per the Secretary of State’s own Form LLC-50.25 (‘LLC Request Form for Certificates of Good Standing and/or Certified Copies of Documents’): ‘Routine Certificate of Good Standing … $25.’ The identical $25 figure for furnishing a certificate is also codified at 805 ILCS 180/50-10(a)(22) of the Illinois Limited Liability Company Act: ‘For furnishing a copy or certified copy of any document, instrument, or paper relating to a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, or for a certificate, $25.’ |
| Expedited/rush fee | $45.00 for an Expedited Certificate of Good Standing, per the same official request form; expedited requests are processed in 24 hours versus about 10 business days for a routine request. |
| Fee confirmed | $25.00 as read from an archived capture of the state’s own fee schedule; the live page blocked automated access this session (see the sourcing note below). |
How fast you can get it
Requests are submitted to the Limited Liability Division by mail, fax, or email against a pre-funded secure online payment account (credit-card payments carry a minimum $1 processor surcharge on top of the certificate fee); there is no instant self-serve download.
What makes this state different
Illinois processes certificate requests only by mail/fax/email against a pre-funded payment account rather than a self-serve instant download, and its own site blocked repeated automated access this session, so this page’s $25 figure was cross-checked between the Secretary of State’s own request form and the codified LLC Act fee statute rather than resting on a single source.
A note on sourcing: ilsos.gov’s own Form LLC-50.25 states the $25/$45 figures directly and was fetched successfully once this session, but three immediate repeat fetches of the same live PDF URL, and every other ilsos.gov page tried (the Business Services home page, the LLC search page), all timed out or blocked automated access – a genuinely flaky/blocking origin, not a dead or wrong page. Because a citation link a reader clicks and finds unreliable is worse than none, the routine $25 figure is confirmed here from a Wayback Machine capture of the identical PDF (byte-identical text to the one successful live fetch, resolved twice this session) and independently corroborated by the codified fee statute, 805 ILCS 180/50-10(a)(22), read live this session via a Justia mirror of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
| Fee/process source | Secretary of State (Department of Business Services, Limited Liability Division) |
| Also see | Illinois LLC Act, 805 ILCS 180/50-10(a)(22) (certificate fee) |
| Confidence | High |
Every fee on this page was read directly from the state’s own Secretary of State (or equivalent agency) site or fee-schedule PDF this session, or, where that site blocked automated access, from an archived snapshot of the same official document or independently cross-checked legal-directory sources (disclosed below). General information, not legal advice; states change fees without notice, so confirm the current price at checkout before you pay.