Section 178.145  Differences

Limited liability company names are deemed not to be distinguishable when a comparison of the names reveals no difference except for:

a)         one or more of the following:  limited liability company, LLC, L.L.C., corporation, company, incorporated, limited, or an abbreviation thereof, regardless of where in the name such may appear;

b)         the inclusion or omission of punctuation, articles of speech, conjunctions, contractions (or symbols thereof), or a letter or letters;

c)         an abbreviation versus a spelling out of a word, a different tense of a word, or the use of the singular as opposed to the plural of a word.

(Source:  Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 12046, effective July 16, 2008)