I also hunt IL and have an anterless and buck tag left. My personal strategy is to strictly trophy hunt for a buck until the last two weeks of the season, then fill my tags with a doe or mature buck, whichever I get a crack at first.

I really like late season hunting around here, there's less food so the deer are more congregated, most people have tagged out or quit hunting so it's like I have the world to myself. I've got access to two acres of standing corn in a woodlot food plot that I can't wait to get into. Late season afternoon hunts on a hot food source are a blast...