I was coming home from southern Illinois this morning and driving west on interstate 74(from 57 to 47)just east of Mahomet,I saw off to my right what most certainly looked like a cougar,it was traveling a newly planted field toward a treeline.I had seen many deer on this trip this morning and had on three or four occasions had deer almost run out in front of my truck heading north on I57.This was definately not a deer that I saw nor was it livestock.It had a waddle as it walked.I don't think that it was a dog either.I have heard of cougar being spotted here in Illinois at various locations,and one killed by an archer in northwest Illinois a year or two ago.I will report what I saw to the IDNR,I was just wondering if any of you have spotted any here in our state?The direction it was traveling was toward a heavily deer populated area,called lake of the woods nature preserve I believe.Just thought I would share.