Get ready to see more blaze orange around wooded areas in Illinois. Hunters will be hitting the woods for the second firearm deer season from Friday, December 5 through Sunday, December 8.
Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 54,661 deer during the first weekend of the Illinois firearm deer season between Nov. 22-24. That is more than a thousand more than in the two ...
Sign for a deer check station. Dale Bowman/Sun-Times file Share Illinois hunters harvested nearly 8% more deer during the firearm deer season than during firearm season last year. Relatively good ...
State Representative Adam Niemerg (R-Dieterich) sponsored a town hall style meeting for farmers and hunters to discuss the continuing problem of too many deer in Illinois that eat and damage crops.
Illinois Law on Charitable Donations of Deer Meat SB3407, which was signed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker in August, rescinds a previous regulation requiring "a meat processor to be a member of ...