Hello, we have just got back from hunting Illinois and let me say at least you have some private land to hunt. We hunted public land and I have never seen so much hunting pressure as I seen there. There is nothing like sitting in your treestand since well before dawn and have a guy be-bopping his way right past your stand at 9:00 am out for a morning scouting episode. We hunted in the Adams/Pike area as well and it was some hard hunting. Deer were not chasing like they should have been the first week of November. We had fun though overall. A little dissapointed in the scarce deer movement. Wecame back with a doe for some venison meat.