Just a remark on the shooting qualification for an Illinois license. Large silhouette targets were set up, at 5 yards, 7 yards, and 10 yards. An applicant had to shoot 10 rounds at each distance. A passing score was getting 70%, or 21 shots, through the paper target (not the silhouette of the person on the target, but the entire piece of paper which was about 2 ft by 3 feet in size!). And not 70% at each distance, but 70% total. You could get 10 rounds on the paper at 5, and 7 yards, then only 1 out of your 10 rounds on the paper at 10 yards and still pass the test. It was so ridiculously easy that even some folks in my class who stated that they had never fired a gun until that very day had no trouble meeting this requirement. You did not have to use the gun you intended carrying, but any gun that you could "mostly" conceal in a holster. I saw several folks using 4 and 6 inch barrel revolvers just for the shooting part of the class. Almost a joke.
Don't be dismayed about how long the Illinois State Police will take to send your license. The law allows them 90 days, and another 30 if you did not submit electronic fingerprints. I submitted the prints and completed the application right on 1/5/14, the first day you could legally submit (some actually submitted earlier and were accepted) and received my license in the mail almost exactly 60 days later. I have carried every day since.
