“Doesn’t Chicago have strict gun laws?”
Not nearly as strict as California, New York, or others. Illinois is a Shall Issue State for CCW. Chicago has an AWB but not the rest of the State. You’d be surprised at how many folks carry legally in the City.
I work in an office of about 10 people and 4 of us carry daily.
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AWBs are a community-level thing around Chicago...Cook County itself has an AWB, but if your community is large enough to qualify for Home Rule, their laws/policies override the County—and many do. Most/all of the affluent communities along the Lake from Evanston north to Highland Park have their own AWBs, but that’s not always the case away from there.
And, of course, there’s plenty of people in those AWB areas who ignore the law....