MICHIGAN CITIZENS for COUGAR RECOGNITION
Illinois Sightings


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.


1990Cat blamed for killing farm animals
1993Fort Sheridan, Chicago's North Shore
1998Edwardsville at the campus of Southern Illinois University
2000Verified wild cougar killed by a train in Randolph County - North American genetics
2003, 2004Macoupin Creek near Carlinville
2004Antioch


Krohe also states that sightings of black cougars are popular around the Shawnee National Forest and Decatur, further north of the Shawnee Forest.


DENISE N. MASSEY