Illinois requires manager or managing-member names and business addresses on its public LLC filing. Illinois publishes the manager's name every year, so real privacy here depends entirely on a Wyoming holding LLC occupying that manager slot instead of an individual. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$150
Articles of Organization filing fee
Names public
Managers/managing members listed on ilsos.gov
WY parent
Holding LLC named as manager for privacy
$75/yr
Annual Report (republishes manager info)
Illinois does not belong on any list of no-disclosure states, and it's worth being direct about that: Form LLC-5.5 requires the name and business address of every manager — or every member with manager authority — and that information is public at ilsos.gov, republished every year on the $75 Annual Report. Illinois is candidly a structural-privacy state, not a name-privacy one. To keep an individual owner's name off the record, the Illinois LLC is formed as manager-managed with a Wyoming holding LLC named as manager, so the public Illinois filing traces to the Wyoming entity rather than to a person.
Illinois's Form LLC-5.5 requires the name and business address of every manager, or of every member with manager authority if the LLC is member-managed. That information is public and searchable at ilsos.gov, and the $75 Annual Report republishes it every year. Illinois is a genuine disclosure state — there is no field on its own filing that stays private the way Wyoming's, New Mexico's, Delaware's, or Michigan's do.
Because Illinois requires a manager's name and address on the public Articles of Organization — and republishes it on every $75 Annual Report — the only way to keep an individual owner's name off the Illinois record is structural: form the operating LLC as manager-managed, and name a Wyoming holding LLC as that manager rather than yourself. The Illinois public record then shows the Wyoming entity, and Wyoming's own filing discloses nothing about who owns it in turn. This has to be set up before the first Illinois filing, not patched afterward — listing yourself as manager even once puts your name in a permanent, searchable state record.
A Wyoming manager on the Illinois filing keeps a name out of Illinois's public record, but it doesn't change federal reporting: the true beneficial owners of both the Illinois LLC and the Wyoming holding LLC must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act.
805 ILCS 180/30-20 — exclusive remedy, but with statutory foreclosure allowed. Illinois calls the charging order the exclusive remedy, but the same statute lets a court foreclose the lien and order the interest sold — a real gap compared to Wyoming's no-foreclosure rule, and one more reason owners often place the protective, ownership-holding layer in Wyoming rather than Illinois.
Illinois requires a $75 Annual Report due on the first day of the LLC's anniversary month, which restates the manager information from the Articles — confirm it still names your Wyoming holding LLC and not an individual each year. Illinois also applies a flat 4.95% income tax plus, for partnership-taxed LLCs, a 1.5% Personal Property Replacement Tax.
Note: Confirm the current $150 filing fee and $75 Annual Report fee directly at ilsos.gov — Illinois periodically adjusts LLC fees, and the manager-disclosure requirement on Form LLC-5.5 is the single most important field to verify before filing, since a mistake there cannot be quietly corrected after the fact.
Note: This template's original brief grouped Illinois with Wyoming, New Mexico, Michigan, and Delaware as a state that 'requires none' of member/manager disclosure. That appears to be incorrect: both apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/il.ts (membersPubliclyListed: true) and the more detailed apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/il.ts (which cites Form LLC-5.5's manager/managing-member requirement) agree Illinois is a disclosure state, not a no-disclosure state. This page treats Illinois correctly as a disclosure state; flagging the discrepancy for whoever set the original five-state list to review.
No. Illinois's Form LLC-5.5 requires the name and business address of every manager, or every member with manager authority, and that information is public and searchable at ilsos.gov, republished every year on the Annual Report. Illinois is a disclosure state, not a privacy state.
Structurally, not by anything Illinois law offers directly: form the Illinois LLC as manager-managed and name a Wyoming holding LLC (which discloses no owners of its own) as the manager. The Illinois public record then shows the Wyoming entity instead of an individual.
No. Illinois's statute (805 ILCS 180/30-20) labels the charging order the exclusive remedy, but the same section lets a court foreclose the lien and order the interest sold — something Wyoming's statute bars outright. This is a separate reason, beyond privacy, that owners often place the holding layer in Wyoming.
Bottom line: Illinois publishes the manager's name every year, so anonymity here comes entirely from a properly structured Wyoming holding LLC occupying that role — not from anything Illinois law provides on its own.