IL public official bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
Illinois conditions many elected and appointed offices on an official bond guaranteeing the faithful performance of the office's duties and the honest handling of public funds. The amount is set by the statute or governing body for your office — enter it and we issue at a flat 3%.
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Public official bonds underwrite quickly. Enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and you're issued. Here's the whole thing:
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Your details, the office, the bond amount your authority set, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
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Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, an underwriter reaches out within 48 hours. The soft pull never affects your score.
File with your office
Pay and receive the executed official bond, ready to file with the clerk, board, or county that administers your office. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure your governing authority set and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the public official bond guarantees
An Illinois official bond is a faithful-performance and honest-accounting guarantee. It backs an officeholder's duty to perform the office faithfully and to account for and pay over public money that passes through their hands. Many Illinois offices — treasurers, collectors, clerks, and others — are conditioned on one before the officeholder qualifies.
Unlike a fixed license bond, there is no single statewide amount. The figure is set by the statute, ordinance, or governing board for the specific office — frequently keyed to the funds the office handles (for example, a percentage of annual receipts). Enter the amount on your appointment or qualification paperwork and we issue exactly that.
It is a three-party guarantee: you (the principal), the surety, and the public body and taxpayers (the protected parties). If the surety pays a claim for malfeasance or a shortfall, you repay the surety — officials who account honestly treat the bond as a qualification formality.
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These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and most bonds issue within a business day.
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Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum, soft pull only. Enter your required amount and file the same or next day.