Registering An Assumed Name

Step 2 - Submit Legal Notice

How to submit the Legal Notice to be Published

1. You should receive the legal notice form with your application in the mail, or you may download and print the Copy of Legal Notice to be Published* online.
   
2. List your assumed name.
   
3. List your exact business address.
   
4. List the names and addresses of all business owners.
   
5. Mail or deliver the application, along with the Legal Notice and the fee to the County Clerk's office.
   
   • Mail:
     Cook County Clerk David Orr
     Vital Records Division
     Attn: Assumed Name Unit
     P.O. Box 642570
     Chicago, IL 60664-2570
         (or)
     Bridgeview Courthouse
     Cook County Clerk's Office
     10220 S. 76th Ave., Room 238
     Bridgeview, IL 60455
         (or)
     Rolling Meadows Courthouse
     Cook County Clerk's Office
     2121 Euclid Ave., Room 238
     Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
     
   • Deliver in person:
     Cook County Clerk's Assumed Name Unit
     118 N. Clark St.
     (Randolph Street entrance/lower concourse level)
     Chicago, IL
         (or)
     Bridgeview branch location (above)
         (or)
     Rolling Meadows branch location (above)
     
6. After you file the application and Legal Notice and pay the fee, the Clerk's office will issue you an Assumed Name File Number and return to you the Legal Notice with the file number included.
   
7. After the Clerk's office returns the Legal Notice and file number to you, your business must publish the notice in a newspaper.