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| Does Illinois have cougars? Have they made their way to Michigan? According to James Krohe Jr., there have been more than 150 cougar sightings reported in Illinois since 1950. |
| 1990 | Cat blamed for killing farm animals |
| 1993 | Fort Sheridan, Chicago's North Shore |
| 1998 | Edwardsville at the campus of Southern Illinois University |
| 2000 | Verified wild cougar killed by a train in Randolph County - North American genetics |
| 2003, 2004 | Macoupin Creek near Carlinville |
| 2004 | Antioch |
| Krohe also states that sightings of black cougars are popular around the Shawnee National Forest and Decatur, further north of the Shawnee Forest. |
