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Chicago-Area Business Resources: Registration and Licenses

• State of Illinois business services and links to directions on registering corporate, LLC, not for profit companies, trademarks and Uniform Commercial Code filings
• Reserve and research an LLC/corporate name in Illinois
• Learn about and register for an Employer Identification Number (EIN)
• Register your Illinois corporation, LLC or not-for-profit company online
• Cook County Assumed Name
• Lake County Assumed Name
• City of Chicago Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (Licensing, Rules and Regulations)

Tax information

• Learn about Illinois business taxes and register for tax numbers
• Illinois Department of Revenue
• Illinois Department of Unemployment Security and Unemployment Taxes
• Federal Employment Taxes
• IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center
• IRS tax information for businesses

Patents, Trademarks and Copyright

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• U.S. Copyright Office

Low Cost Legal

• Legal Zoom
• Rocket Lawyer
• Chicago Bar Association Lawyer Referral
• Lake County Bar Association Lawyer Referral
• NOLO Network – Business Legal Software and Books with Some Free Resources
• Bluhm Legal Clinic Entrepreneurship Law Center Northwestern University School of Law
• Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship University of Chicago Law School
• Community Economic Development Law Project
• DePaul University College of Law Technology/Intellectual Property Clinic
• IIT Chicago Kent College of Law
• Law Talk

City of Chicago Resources

• City Treasurer’s Office
• Chicago Public Library Business Department
• Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
• Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce