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File your forms in the Circuit Clerk's office. Your Petition for Change of Name (Adult) has to be notarized prior to filing. The Clerk requires a filing fee of $291.00 in cash, money order, or credit card. No personal checks are accepted.
Any person who has been a resident of the State of Illinois for six months and is a resident of Cook County may petition the court for a change of name. The person filing the Petition for Change of Name may also add requests to change the name(s) of a spouse, adult unmarried children and minor children.
File your forms in the Circuit Clerk's office. Your Petition for Change of Name (Adult) has to be notarized prior to filing. The Clerk requires a filing fee of $291.00 in cash, money order, or credit card. No personal checks are accepted.
In Illinois, you usually don't have to go through any specific process to change your name after marriage. You can simply present your marriage certificate as the primary legal document for changing your name.
O Contact a newspaper in your county and set up publication of the notice. o If there is no newspaper in your county, contact a convenient newspaper published in Illinois.