So happy to be out of there! Unfortunately I'm still too close to Mordor on Lake Michigan.
Even though I was out of Illinoy already my FOID card wasn't expired. Some time later I noticed at the gas station that it had broken in half (cheap card), looked at it, it had just expired as well. Good riddance to bad rubbish, in the garbage it went.
At one point after that I also received a letter in the mail, in Indiana, informing me that it was expired. I'm probably on a list there as one of the gun owners without a FOID who didn't register any weapons.
I agree with the trial balloon, observe and adapt concept above. The ratchet only goes left and never stops with these evil petty tyrants.