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> I don't know Illinois law well, but there are good reasons why most corporations are Delaware (with a few in Nevada and a couple other states), including tax and governance issues.

CA works really hard to ensure that there are no tax advantages to incorporating elsewhere. If you do biz in CA, you pay CA taxes on that biz (and possibly some other biz - CA wants money).

In fact, CA even has a minimum fee ($5-800 IIRC) for doing biz here even if you don't make money.

My understanding is that for S/C-corps you should incorporate in Delaware, for LLCs it's generally better to do it in the state you operate out of.

By most corporations, I think you mean most large, public corporations incorporate in Deleware. I just didn't want to hassle with being a foreign entity in my own state and the taxes and fees in Illinois are reasonable.