So, it's sounding like not an if but a when.... I'll have to be in Illinois for work for a while, talking year(s).

Just how bad is it going to be for me there? Will I want to keep a Michigan address? I'm guessing I probably won't really want to be a resident.
It's sounding like a pretty lucrative job so I don't think I want to turn it down just because of the (temporary) restrictive gun laws.

I'll say I'm a little disappointed as I do NOT want to live there. Maybe my views of the state's laws are worse than they actually are.

I'll be literally in the dead center of the state so living in IN or other surrounding states and commuting is not going to work.