Think that so far there have been three documented cases of mountain lions killed in Illinois going back almost a decade. Not that far from Illinois to Ohio for an animal that can cover as much ground as a mountain lion, when you consider that recently a muc slower moving black bear wandered from far eastern Ohio or West Virginia to dang near the outskirts of Dayton. The one thing that the folks in Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Illinois who said "they ain't here" have in common is they were wrong.