Slightly off topic...
What's F'd up is Illinois is actually better than here in that you can carry an unloaded firearm.
From Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carryIn 1996, the Fourth District Illinois Appellate Court ruled that an unloaded handgun carried in a purse did not meet the definition of unlawful use of a weapon per se due to being fully enclosed. Following this ruling a movement started in the early 2000s dubbed Fanny Pack Carry, where proponents carried unloaded handguns in fanny packs to protest the state's outright ban on carrying loaded firearms.[61] This resulted in several arrests but ultimately every criminal prosecution failed[62] and resulted in one successful wrongful arrest lawsuit.[63]
In 2009 the Supreme Court of Illinois ruled that any object that fully encloses a handgun and fastens closed in any form or manner legally constitutes a "case" per se under Illinois Law.
Following this in 2011 before the passage of Conceal Carry in Illinois, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources published a brochure which stated that to transport a firearm on one's person, one only has to meet three conditions:
Unloaded
Enclosed in a case
Possessed in conjunction with an Illinois FOID.[64]
The Illinois State Police reaffirmed this in a 2012 brochure that states that a person may have a firearm upon their person as long as it's unloaded and enclosed in a case.[65]