Illinois
Transcription Services in Chicago, IL
Medical and legal transcription for Chicago practices, from $1.75 per minute. Dictate in the browser or upload a recording — or meet us at the Chicago office by appointment.
ScribeForms — Chicago53 W Jackson BlvdChicago, IL 60604
By appointment only
This office is staffed and open by appointment. We work with local transcriptionists and partner legal practices here, and for onboarding we will usually come to your place of business rather than ask you to come to ours.
53 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604
What we do for Chicago clients
Transcription, human-verified or AI-only
Upload audio or video, or dictate straight into the browser. You choose per job whether a person checks the transcript against the recording before you get it, and the finished document records which mode produced it — so you can always tell whether anyone reviewed it.
Dictate a form and get the form back
Upload a blank form, talk through the answers, and we write them into that same document in its own layout — not a summary of what you said. Every extracted field carries a confidence score and the quote from your dictation it came from.
A record that survives an audit
When someone approves a document we store who they were, a SHA-256 digest of exactly the content they saw, the version, and the time — plus how long elapsed between the transcript becoming available and the signature. You can export that certificate and a recipient can verify the digest without us.
Turnaround you pick per job
- 4-Day Standard — $1.75/min, delivered within four business days
- 48-Hour Rush — $2.50/min, delivered within two business days
- 24-Hour Same Day — $3.50/min, delivered within one business day
Human-verified orders carry a minimum: $25 for audio and documents, $30 for video. AI-only orders have no minimum. Recordings with heavy background noise, crosstalk, or strong accents are quoted at the difficult-audio rate, from $2.25 per minute. We tell you before work starts, never after.
How we work in Chicago
Local transcriptionists
We engage transcriptionists based here, so a reviewer working on a Chicagopractice’s files knows the local institutions and terminology that come up in them.
Partner practices
We work with legal practices in Illinois to serve their clients, which is how we cover this market without asking anyone to send files to another state.
We come to you
For onboarding we would usually rather visit your office than have you visit ours. The Chicago office is available by appointment when meeting here suits you better.
What Illinois law requires
Medical records
Illinois draws a sharp distinction between hospitals and private practices. Hospitals must retain patient records for not less than ten years, and where an attorney has given written notice of pending litigation before that period expires, the record must be kept until the matter concludes or for twelve years from production, whichever comes first. There is no Illinois statute setting a retention period for private physician offices, so practices follow professional guidance rather than a statutory minimum. X-ray films held by hospitals carry a separate five-year requirement.
- 210 ILCS 85/6.17 (Hospital Licensing Act - ten-year retention)
- No statutory period for private physician offices
Legal transcripts
Illinois licenses shorthand reporters under the Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984, which declares the practice to affect public health, safety and welfare and restricts it to licensed persons. The Act contains a provision worth knowing if a matter moves between counties: a restricted certificate may be issued to official court reporters appointed in counties of fewer than one million people, allowing them to report only the court proceedings assigned to them by their circuit chief judge. Cook County, which contains Chicago, is well above that threshold, so reporters there hold full certification rather than the restricted form.
- 225 ILCS 415 (Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984)
- 68 Ill. Admin. Code pt. 1200 (administrative rules for shorthand reporters)
The regulatory information on this page is general background compiled from public primary sources, not legal or compliance advice. Requirements change and vary by jurisdiction and by court. Verify current rules with the relevant authority or your own counsel before relying on them.