I read this and chuckled because Illinois, and Chicago specifically are so deep in the fail sauce when it comes to gun control and everything else it isn't even funny anymore. No firearms dealers shouldn't have to subject themselves into getting yet another license to operate a business. Neither should barbers you economic illiterate! Licensure impedes competition and the ability of regular people to starting their own businesses. No, licensure does not protect the consumer. No, licensure doesn't make businesses deal with the public fairly.
Enjoy your socialist utopia while it lasts, like Venezuela, and everyone else who has tried socialism, it will fail and spectacularly so. I know, I know...