1) Determine what illinois toll payment you owe
- Use the trip calculator at getipass.com/trip-calculator
2) Pay IL toll
at getipass.com/payunpaid
Pay By Mail
Pay By Plate
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For further information see the Unpaid Tolls page on the Illinois Tollway website.
Call 800-824-7277
Monday through Friday from 6 AM to 10 PM
Weekends 8 AM to 5 PM.
Best times to call are Tuesday through Friday after 6 PM, or during the weekend.
If you go through an Illinois Tollway I-PASS Toll and...
you do not have an active I-PASS account, you will be billed an Illinois highway toll payment via the Pay By Plate system and you will owe the cash rate for that toll.
you have an active I-PASS account, but the I-PASS device was not properly mounted (or not in the car), you will be billed via the Pay By Plate system and you will owe the I-PASS rate for that toll.
you have an active I-PASS active account and a properly mounted I-PASS device, but the device malfunctioned, you you will be billed via the Pay By Plate system and will owe the I-PASS rate.
you have an active Pay By Plate account, you will be billed via the Pay By Plate system and will owe the cash rate.
Put in another way, if you go through an Illinois Tollway I-PASS Toll and the I-PASS system does not detect a transponder then:
you will be billed via the Pay By Plate system.
If you have an active I-PASS account you will owe the I-PASS rate, otherwise you will owe the cash rate.
Note: on the toll rates page, the cash rate is under the "Pay Online" column heading, and the I-PASS rate is under the "I-PASS" column heading.
You have 14 days to pay..
You can calculate what you owe by using the trip calculator at https://www.getipass.com/trip-calculator and you can see what the State of Illinois says you owe https://www.getipass.com/searchbyplate here.
It typically takes less than 24 hours for you to appear in the system https://www.getipass.com/searchbyplate after going through a toll without paying.
You can call 800-824-7277 for more info.
If you pay the wrong amount and it is to little, you still owe the difference, if it’s to much you will need to claim the overage amount.
The same rules apply to most EZPass states.
You can pay Illinois tolls online at Illinois Tollway Unpaid Tolls website via setting up pay by plate. If you have an IPass you can just pay IL toll online on your getipass account.
Visitors typically pay Illinois tolls via the pay by plate method. You can make a illinois toll road payment for pay by plate at the at Illinois Tollway Unpaid Tolls website. Illinois is part of the E-ZPass system and its tollway transponder is the IPass, which is used to pay tolls a cheaper way than the pay by plate method.
Yes, Illinois tolls are 50% cheaper as compared with paying with cash or via the pay by plate method. I-PASS users often receive discounted toll rates as an incentive to use the electronic toll collection system. These discounts can result in significant cost savings for frequent toll road users in Illinois.
If you lack an IPass or E-ZPass, proceed through the tollway and subsequently locate your license plate information on the Illinois Tollway website for payment. Failure to settle an unpaid toll online within 14 days will result in Illinois sending you an invoice. It's important to note that, except for the Chicago Skyway, no Illinois toll roads accept cash or credit card payments.
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