Hunters killed 50,300 deer the first weekend of IL firearm season. Here’s a list by county

Hunters in the metro-east killed nearly 5,000 deer during the first weekend of firearm season in Illinois, according to preliminary figures from the Department of Natural Resources.

All told, the agency stated in a news release Tuesday, about 50,300 deer were taken across the state from Nov. 19-Nov. 21.

That’s an increase of more than 3,000 from the first weekend of firearm deer hunting in 2020, when hunters killed 47,147 deer, according to the release.

You can get other information about deer hunting in Illinois here: https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/hunting/Pages/DeerHunting.aspx

The following list shows the how many deer were killed county-by-county in 2021, 2020 and 2019.