The Department's mission is to protect and promote the lives of Illinois consumers. We do this by overseeing over one million professionals in nearly 100 industries. We license everything from barbers to banks and architects to veterinarians. We also monitor most of the states financial institutions, which have combined assets in excess of $4 trillion.

If you can't find an answer on our site to your question about protecting your health, home or finances, please call or visit us. Licensed professionals may instead choose to click on their profession page and send an email directly to the staff that oversees their licenses. Licensed financial or mortgage businesses may find additional contact information on their professional pages.

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation is made up of three divisions:

The Division of Banking regulates mortgage companies, state chartered banks, trust companies, savings institutions, pawnbrokers, check printers and registers Automatic Teller Machines established by others than financial institutions.

The Division of Financial Institutions regulates credit unions, currency exchanges, short term lending firms and other financial institutions.

The Division of Professional Regulation licenses and oversees nearly 1 million professionals who are required to be licensed in Illinois.