Verify a Illinois Licensed Professional Counselor license

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How Illinois Licensed Professional Counselor license verification works

A Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois is licensed by the IL Behavioral Health / Counseling & Social Work Boards. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: status expires issued effective license_type discipline_actions data_as_of.

Board note: IDFPR license file on data.illinois.gov (weekly; rowsUpdatedAt 2026-11-02), queried live over SODA; interactive lookup online-dfpr.micropact.com/lookup/licenselookup.aspx is FormShield image-CAPTCHA gated (not used); captured 2026-11-03; LCSW 149, LSW 150, LCPC 180/LPC 178, LMFT 166, clinical psychologist 071, behavior analyst 152; lada not IDFPR (IAODAPCA certification)

What a Licensed Professional Counselor license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Licensed Professional Counselor license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Counseling Compact and multistate Licensed Professional Counselor licenses

Licensed Professional Counselor licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Counseling Compact. When the Illinois record shows a multistate license, the result includes multistate: true and the privilege states. Privilege status is confirmed at the compact's own lookup, never inferred.

Verify a Illinois Licensed Professional Counselor license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "IL", "profession": "lpc", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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