You could "TRY" to go to Iowa .. but it took me 3 years in the lottery to draw a tag. In Illinois you just need to be paying attention when the licenses go on sale ....

If you had the luxury to pick on a given year .. I'd go with Iowa. Better deer and less pressure in my opinion. The difficulty for out of state hunters to draw a tag keeps the pressure .. on farmers and the deer down slightly in Iowa. Not that it is easy .. just slightly easier than Illinois.