Reference only. Compiled from public state board pages and possibly out of date. Always confirm with your state licensing board. Not legal advice and not a substitute for training, the NEC and local codes, or your employer's procedures. Where we could not confirm a value on an official page, we show Check with board and a link instead of guessing.
Licensing board: No statewide electrician board: municipalities (65 ILCS 5/11-33-1)
Statewide licensing: We found no statewide electrician license on the official sources we read. Illinois law lets each municipality require electrical contractors to register; individual licensing, where it exists, is set locally. Check with the city or village where you will work. source
License levels
- Electrical contractor registration (local): 65 ILCS 5/11-33-1: each municipality "may require the registration of electrical contractors, and may impose an annual registration fee of $25"; a contractor registered in one municipality "shall not be required by any other municipality to be registered or to pay a registration fee in the other municipality." The law: the term electrical contractor does not "include the employees employed by an electrical contractor to do or supervise his work." source
- Individual electricians (journeyman): requirements: check with the local building department where you will work
Last checked 2026-10-18. Code edition by state: NFPA NEC enforcement maps.
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