silentassassin there are many reasons. What seperates Kansas is that they allow resident landowners with 80 acres or more to apply for a tag from the pool of non-resident tags available. What then happens is that outfitters like USO pays big dollars for those tags. Lets say USO gets 250 people from around the Kansas City area to apply for and recieve tags. They then sell the tags in their trophy hunts, but the hunts take place on land in south and central Kansas, nowhere near the land the owners own. That creates big management problems as well as making it very tough to have a fair draw system. USO can lease up a 25000 acre ranch in southern Kansas, buy 500 tags and kill the heck out of deer off that ranch, then move on. USO has a terrible reputation for doing underhanded things all in the name of money.

Kansas realized this, made adjustments and in the process hurt residents. Perhaps IL doesn't allow for landowner tags to be transferred ? Is it an archery draw ? I don't know.