Cook County
Cook County Clerk's Office, Vital Records / Business & Notary Division
In short
Cook County Clerk's Office, Vital Records / Business & Notary Division issues 1 permit we publish for Cook County, last verified 2026-09-27. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed Business Name Registration ("DBA")only if it applies to you | Cook County Clerk's Office, Vital Records / Business & Notary Division | $50 flat registration fee, one-time at filing | no renewal or refiling cadence is stated in the Cook County Clerk's own registration materials; the initial filing requires notice published once a week for three consecutive weeks within 15 calendar days of filing, with proof of publication due back to the Clerk within 50 days | 2026-09-27 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Assumed Business Name Registration ("DBA")
This is the only county-level requirement listed for Cook County that reaches a business inside the City of Chicago as well as suburban and unincorporated Cook County, because the Cook County Clerk is the county-wide filer under the Illinois Assumed Business Name Act. It applies to a sole proprietorship, general partnership or professional-service corporation trading under a name other than the owner's own legal name; it does not apply to an LLC, corporation, LP or LLP, each of which files its assumed name with the Illinois Secretary of State instead, and it does not apply to a sole proprietor trading under their own full legal name. The fee is a flat $50, filed online through the Clerk's assumed-names portal. No county source describes a periodic renewal requirement after the initial three-week publication and 50-day proof-of-publication cycle.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Cook County
- Phone
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Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Assumed Business Name RegistrationCook County Clerk's Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
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