Section 685.10  Statewide Season for White-Tailed Deer Hunting

a)         Season:  One-half hour before sunrise on Saturday of the State designated Columbus Day Holiday weekend to ½ hour after sunset on Sunday of that weekend.  Shooting hours are ½ hour before sunrise to ½ hour after sunset.

b)         Permit quotas shall be set by the Department of Natural Resources (Department) on a county or special hunt area basis.  Cook, DuPage and Lake Counties, and that portion of Kane County east of State Route 47, are closed to firearm deer hunting.

c)         Hunting outside the set season dates is a Class B misdemeanor (see 520 ILCS 5/2.24); and hunting prior to ½ hour before sunrise or after ½ hour after sunset is a Class A misdemeanor with a minimum $500 fine and a maximum $5,000 fine, in addition to other statutory penalties (see 520 ILCS 5/2.33(y)).

(Source:  Amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 14829, effective October 18, 2007)