Card file on for-profit corporations, 1916-1969.

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Card file on for-profit corporations, 1916-1969.

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Alphabetically arranged card file abstracts annual report filing and fee payment by for-profit corporations. Each corporation card, designated as either foreign or domestic, includes corporation name and address; state in which organized; Illinois county of registration; incorporation charter number; incorporation, charter duration and expiration dates; corporation president or registered agent name; capital stock amount; initial shares authorized; and occasionally, remarks on dissolution or corporate name change. Entries for annual report and fee payment receipts include delivery and annual report receipt dates; franchise and penalty fee payment dates; capital stock amount issued by domestic corporations or stated capital and paid-in surplus for foreign corporations. No annual entries are given for 1968-1969.

40 cubic ft.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Office of Secretary of State. Corporations Dept.

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Until the adoption of the 1848 Constitution, all Illinois corporations were chartered by General Assembly special acts. Although the Secretary of State was authorized to charter and regulate specific corporation types, many firms continued to obtain General Assembly charters. After the 1870 Constitution prohibited corporation formation by special acts, an 1871 statute gave the Secretary of State exclusive corporation chartering and regulating responsibility. But the first corporatio...

Illinois. Office of Secretary of State

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The Office of Secretary of State, successor to the territorial Secretary, was established by the 1818 Constitution to keep both the state archives and a register of the Governor's official acts. The Secretary was appointed by the Governor until the 1848 Constitution made the office elective. In 1873, the Dept. of Archives and Index was created to "make and keep proper indexes to the executive records and all public acts, resolutions, papers and documents" filed with the Secretary of State. This ...