Concealed Carry in Illinois?

The movement slowly gains steam downstate:

• Illinois law enforcement officials are divided over a new attempt to permit the state's residents to carry concealed handguns.
  
  Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, has proposed a "Family and Personal Protection Act" that would set statewide standards for issuing concealed carry permits and would exempt permit holders from various unlawful use of weapons laws. The bill, HB0245, was referred to the rules committee after first reading last week.
  
  Similar bills have been introduced, and shunted aside, in most recent legislative sessions. This year, though, the idea could get a boost from the Illinois Sheriff's Association.

Even if it happened in Illinois (a very long shot by any stretch of the imagination). Shortshanks would add exemptions banning Chicago residents from actually being able to defend themselves from criminals. Overtaxed, unarmed and ignorant seems to be the way Daley wants all his voters.