I'm trying to formulate a "what's next" and a summary to catch people up.
If I'm wrong on anything please correct me, if I'm missing anything please add to it.
From my perception....
HB1155 is going through for second reading. HB997 also got forcefully ejected from committee by floor vote today. The anti-gun speaker sent it to an anti-gun committee where they tried to bury it, while Madigan rushed out this HB1155 nonsense.
Madigan's push failed, pro-gunners gutted HB1155 and replaced it with the text of HB997.
Meanwhile, the moment HB997 was voted OUT of the hostile committee by the floor, anti-gunners immediately filed a series of amendments that will be voted on in the coming days, pushing for far greater restrictions and "gun free zones" that would neuter the concealed carry capability. One of those (Amendment 8 ) would ALSO kill the home rule provisions allowing Chicago to continue to enforce complete ban, or their own draconian version of a "may issue" bill.
At this point, it's anyone's game.
WE found out today we don't have the 71 votes required to pre-empt home rule, THEY don't have the votes to pass anything nasty. (We're 3 votes shy, so we swayed ONE rep since it went up last time).
So we'll need to bend on SOMETHING to get those 71 votes. (Hopefully, one SMALL something).
Once we get 71 votes, it becomes veto proof (in the house) and can preempt home rule so Chicago can't screw you guys over up north. (One set of rules, statewide)
Now.. the Senate.. that's a different matter entirely. The problem with sending this through the house first, is the Senate can (and probably will) gut the damn thing and add all sorts of restrictions.
Once they do, when it comes back to the house "as amended", the house will get a vote to reject or confirm any additional restrictions or gutting done to the bill. If it's too hostile, they'll vote it down and it dies; enter Constitutional carry. If it's OK, they'll send it off.
Now, once it hits the Governors desk, he'll veto it. Absolutely, positively veto it, unless it's the Madigan-backed bill. He'll probably do this with an amendatory veto (replacing the entire bill with an assault weapons ban, again, or some other such nonsensical grandstanding), which will require a supermajority to override. So then it goes BACK to the house and senate for an override.
We'll need enough votes in BOTH houses to form a supermajority vote.
If all of that fails, and a consensus isn't reached, we get Constitutional carry. Unfortunately this means Chicago can pass any damn thing they want, since we're a home rule state. Then each of those city / county ordinances that crop up would have to be challenged separately in court to vacate them.