(225 ILCS 645/7) (from Ch. 111, par. 407)
Sec. 7.
Each non-resident applicant for an original license or
renewal license shall file with the
Department an irrevocable consent that actions against the applicant may
be filed in the circuit court of the county where the plaintiff resides
or where some part of the transaction occurred out of which the alleged
cause of action arose and that process in any action may be served on
the applicant by leaving 2 copies thereof with the Director. Such
consent shall stipulate that such service of process is valid for all
purposes. The Director shall promptly forward, by certified mail, one
copy of such process to the applicant at the address shown on the
records of the Department. No foreign corporation shall be granted a
license under this Act until it has been authorized by the Secretary of
State to do business in this State.
(Source: P.A. 81-191.)
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