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

• $94
  America Remembers, Antique Vehicle, Autism Awareness, B-truck, Chicago Bears, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Collegiate, Eagle Scout, Education, Environmental, Firefighters Memorial, Illinois Chicago Police Memorial Foundation,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
• $50 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 $13 surcharge is assessed to the renewal fee.

Newly Acquired Vehicle

• $288^*
  ($194 title/registration fee + $94 Vanity fee)

* Specialty license plates have an extra specialty plate fee.

Vanity plates are available for several of the plates in the collegiate series.For information on a specific collegiate license plate, please check the individual license plate's page.

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, Women Veterans and World War II Veteran do not require the extra-vanity license plates fee.

Availability

Antique Vehicle, Passenger, B-truck, Recreational Trailer and Recreational Vehicle

• Numbers - 1 through 999


or
• Letters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7

America Remembers, Environmental, Motorcycle, Persons with Disabilities, Prevent Violence and University of Illinois (Urbana)

• Numbers - 1 through 999


or
• Letters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6

Antique Motorcycle, Autism Awareness, Chicago Bears, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Eagle Scout, Education, Eastern Illinois University, Firefighters Memorial, Illinois Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, Illinois State University, Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, Mammogram, Northern Illinois University, Notre Dame, Organ Donor, Ovarian Cancer Awareness, Park District Youth Program, Pet Friendly, Police Memorial, Rotary International, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Saluting Agriculture, Support Our Troops, Support Youth Golf, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois (Springfield), and Western Illinois University

• Numbers - 1 through 999


or
• Letters 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5

Illinois Route 66, Illinois Pan Hellenic, Illinois Police Association, Master Mason, Military, Sheet Metal Workers International Association, and Sporting Series

• Numbers - 1 through 999


or
• Letters 1, 2, 3 or 4

Renewal Methods

• All Vanity 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.