Harvest during first season of spring turkey hunting in Illinois’ north zone mirrors the upturn seen in harvest in the first two seasons in the south zone. Yeah, I was happy to do my part to pump up the numbers (above).
Here is the word from Chris Young, the communications director for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources:
First season in the North Zone concluded with a preliminary harvest of 2,343, up from 1,848 last year. Fifty counties were up, 11 were down, and five remained the same. A spreadsheet with preliminary results is attached.
Here is the spread sheet county-by-county:
| County | 2014 | 2015 |
| Adams | 81 | 108 |
| Boone | 13 | 12 |
| Brown | 65 | 116 |
| Bureau | 30 | 40 |
| Calhoun | 70 | 66 |
| Carroll | 46 | 57 |
| Cass | 50 | 73 |
| Champaign | 1 | 5 |
| Christian | 12 | 15 |
| Clark | 32 | 44 |
| Coles | 10 | 12 |
| Cumberland | 11 | 17 |
| DeKalb | 2 | 3 |
| DeWitt | 10 | 13 |
| Douglas | 3 | 2 |
| Edgar | 21 | 22 |
| Ford | 3 | 1 |
| Fulton | 104 | 115 |
| Greene | 48 | 42 |
| Grundy | 6 | 14 |
| Hancock | 71 | 70 |
| Henderson | 34 | 40 |
| Henry | 18 | 16 |
| Iroquois | 7 | 11 |
| Jersey | 40 | 60 |
| JoDaviess | 159 | 187 |
| Kane | 0 | 0 |
| Kankakee | 4 | 11 |
| Kendall | 6 | 2 |
| Knox | 40 | 72 |
| Lake | 0 | 1 |
| LaSalle | 21 | 33 |
| Lee | 11 | 27 |
| Livingston | 3 | 4 |
| Logan | 4 | 6 |
| Macon | 4 | 7 |
| Macoupin | 70 | 97 |
| Marshall | 9 | 18 |
| Mason | 40 | 50 |
| McDonough | 23 | 35 |
| McHenry | 10 | 15 |
| McLean | 10 | 10 |
| Menard | 18 | 33 |
| Mercer | 43 | 46 |
| Montgomery | 36 | 41 |
| Morgan | 35 | 72 |
| Moultrie | 5 | 6 |
| Ogle | 34 | 33 |
| Peoria | 32 | 35 |
| Piatt | 1 | 0 |
| Pike | 90 | 92 |
| Putnam | 7 | 14 |
| Rock Island | 40 | 42 |
| Sangamon | 19 | 23 |
| Schuyler | 52 | 87 |
| Scott | 18 | 18 |
| Shelby | 21 | 27 |
| Stark | 0 | 0 |
| Stephenson | 44 | 60 |
| Tazewell | 13 | 15 |
| Vermilion | 34 | 34 |
| Warren | 16 | 15 |
| Whiteside | 34 | 37 |
| Will | 8 | 12 |
| Winnebago | 33 | 37 |
| Woodford | 13 | 15 |
| Total | 1848 | 2343 |
