Nearly all the rest of IL is conservative. Plenty of gun owners here as well as one of the largest state NRA orgs in the nation.
But thanks to redistricting, Chicago and East St. Louis carry all the weight.
As is the Armalite factory :-)
It would be nice if the rest of Illinois could get together and secede from the state and leave Chicago to be it’s own city/state. We would get two new senators that would have to be more conservative than wheat we have now. Do the same with Washington, Oregon, Pennsylvania and we would have 8 new senators.