Illinois license plate: Dealer
Issued today Documented since 2026. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Illinois Secretary of State, Vehicle Services Department. One of 8 Illinois license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99999, for example91678(9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- Everything except the binding is secondary, and the suspected geographic encoding is the most interesting unverified claim in this file.
- How long it is valid
- issued ANNUALLY (secondary), unlike the permanent semi-trailer plate, so the dealer plate is the short-cycle end of Illinois issuance
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Illinois
- The general issuance frame; it carries no dealer grammar https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-625-vehicles/il-st-sect-625-5-3-412.html
This plate in your app
The series id is us-il-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Illinois's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-il \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-il-dealer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-il/us-il-dealer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-il/us-il-dealer/template.svg
