Important Facts

• No refund or adjustment will be made for a change of choice or spacing after a plate has been ordered, or if the request form is incorrectly completed.
• The Secretary of State’s office is authorized to recall a plate that is determined to be obscene or offensive.
• All request forms should indicate whether or not you want the Secretary of State to assign one of your choices with the next available number if your exact request is unavailable.
• If you wish to submit more than three requests, attach additional selections to the request form.
• Numbers are required to precede letters on personalized B-Truck, RV, RT, Antique Vehicle and Antique Motorcycle plates.
• If you want a space between letters, please indicate with a slash mark. An automatic space is required between letters and numbers. Spacing varies with the type of plates requested. Proper completion of the form is the customer's responsibility.

Do Not

• Intermix letters and numbers
• Use a space between numbers
• Use lower-case letters
• Use characters, symbols, foreign words or symbols of punctuation, such as dashes or periods
• Select obscene or offensive combinations

Fees

Initial Fees

• $47
  America Remembers, Antique Vehicle, B-truck, Collegiate*, Eagle Scout, Education, Environmental, Firefighters Memorial, Illinois Hospice, Illinois Police Association, Illinois Route 66, Illinois Pan Hellenic, Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, Mammogram, Master Mason, Organ Donor, Ovarian Cancer Awareness, Park District Youth Program, Passenger, Persons with Disabilities, Pet Friendly, Police Memorial, Prevent Violence, Recreational Vehicle (up to 8,000 lbs.), Rotary International, Saluting Agriculture, Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Sporting Series, Support Our Troops, and Support Youth Golf.
• $25 Recreational Trailer
• A $29 replacement fee is assessed to all plate switches, with the exception of Motorcycle and Recreational Trailer (RT) plates, which have a $26 replacement fee.
• A $7 surcharge is assessed to the renewal fee.

Newly Acquired Vehicle

• $241^*
  ($194 title/registration fee + $47 Personalized fee)

* Specialty license plates have an extra specialty plate fee.

Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University, Northern Illinois University, Notre Dame, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois (Urbana), University of Illinois (Springfield) and Western Illinois University are the only license plates in the Collegiate series available as vanity at this time.

Military License Plates—Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Air Force Service Cross, Armed Forces Reserves, Armed Forces Retired, Bronze Star, Disabled Veteran, Distinguished Service Cross, Ex-Prisoner, Gold Star, Illinois National Guard, Iraq Campaign Medal, Korean Service, Korean War Veteran, Marine Corps, Navy Service Cross, Paratrooper, Pearl Harbor Survivor, Purple Heart, Retired Armed Forces, Silver Star, Universal Veteran, Universal Veteran Motorcycle, U.S. Army Veteran, U. S. Navy Veteran, Vietnam Veteran, and World War II Veteran do not require the extra-personalized license plates fee.

Availability

Passenger

• 1,2,3,4 or 5 letters plus 1 thru 99


or
• 6 letters plus 1 thru 9

Antique Vehicle ^*, B-truck, Recreational Trailer and Recreational Vehicle

• 1 thru 999 plus 1,2 or 3 letters


or
• 1 thru 99 plus 4 letters


or
• 1 thru 9 plus 5 letters

Antique Motorcycle ^*

• 1 thru 99 plus 3 letters


or
• 1 thru 9 plus 4 letters

Environmental, Motorcycle, Persons with Disabilities and Prevent Violence

• 1,2,3,4 letters plus 1 thru 99


or
• 5 letters plus 1 thru 9

America Remembers, Organ Donor and University of Illinois (Urbana)

• 1,2 or 3 letters plus 1 thru 99


or
• 4 letters plus 1 thru 9

Eagle Scout, Education, Eastern Illinois University, Firefighters Memorial, Illinois Route 66, Illinois State, University Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, Mammogram, Master Mason, Military, Northern Illinois University, Notre Dame, Ovarian Cancer Awareness, Park District Youth Program, Pet Friendly, Police Memorial, Rotary International, Saluting Agriculture, Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Sporting Series, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Support Youth Golf, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois (Springfield) and Western Illinois University

• 1 or 2 letters plus 1 thru 99


or
• 3 letters plus 1 thru 9

Illinois Pan Hellenic

• 1, 2, 3, 4,letters



• 1 or 2 letters plus 1 thru 99



• 3 letters plus 1 thru 9

^*Numbers are required to precede letters on personalized Antique Motorcycle, Antique Vehicle, B-truck, RT and RV plates.

Renewal Methods

• All Personalized license plates can be renewed online, by mail, touch-tone phone, or visit a Driver Services facility.

License plate registration application forms may be obtained in person at most Secretary of State facilities, by mail or by calling
800-252-8980.