Illinois new business reports

New Illinois businesses by formation month, from official state registry records.

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Monthly feed

Every new one in Illinois, every month

$70/month

About 13,975 new businesses a month. Your first file today, then a new file each month with only the new ones, never repeats. Cancel any time. Or $700 a year (2 months free).

One-time list

All 170,429 Illinois businesses formed since October 2025

$2,556.44

$0.015 per record. A CSV with every column, plus 6 monthly refreshes. Or Pay-in-6: $511.29 today, then 6 monthly payments of about $340.85.

New businesses per month

010,00020,000Oct 2024: 5,516Oct 24Nov 2024: 6,928Dec 2024: 8,102Jan 2025: 9,5532025Feb 2025: 8,225Mar 2025: 8,560Apr 2025: 8,941May 2025: 8,361Jun 2025: 8,357Jul 2025: 9,493Aug 2025: 7,381Sep 2025: 7,609Oct 2025: 7,293Nov 2025: 10,862Dec 2025: 11,889Jan 2026: 13,9642026Feb 2026: 12,759Mar 2026: 18,704Apr 2026: 15,920May 2026: 13,759Jun 2026: 14,045Jul 2026: 15,158Aug 2026: 13,225Sep 2026: 13,542

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Want the businesses, not just the count?

The new Illinois businesses counted in these reports are available as a file: name, address, entity type, formation month and, where the state publishes it, the registered agent.

New Business Monthly

$399 a month

One file every month with the businesses newly registered across 12 states since the file before (more than 170,000 in the latest one). Cancel any time.

New Business File

$1,499 one time

Every business formed in the last 12 months across 15 states: more than 2.2 million records, one CSV per state, with 2 monthly updates included.

The formation date in the files is the year and month. Most records have no email address or EIN.

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