Chicago cougar could have come from Wisconsin

DeKALB - Imagine my surprise when I turned on the local news on Monday and saw Chicago police had shot a cougar on the North Side. It was just a few months back, the sixth of February to be exact, that the Illinois Department of Natural Resources issued a press release regarding cougars.  The story ran in the Outdoors News and Notes the following week and I'm sure received little fanfare. The IDNR was responding to several cougar photos that had surfaced on the internet. The photos were supposedly taken in Illinois. At about the same time, Doug Fendry, a wildlife supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources had been tracking a cougar sighting in his state. A Wisconsin resident encountered a cougar in the second story of