Illinois Administrative Code
Title 17 - CONSERVATION
Part 530 - COCK PHEASANT, HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE, BOBWHITE QUAIL, AND RABBIT HUNTING
Section 530.95 - Youth Pheasant Hunting Regulations

a) At the following sites, the Illinois Youth Pheasant Hunt will be held on:

b) Hunting hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., except that, at Sangchris Lake, hunting hours are from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and, at Edward R. Madigan State Fish and Wildlife Area, Eldon Hazlet State Park, Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area, Pere Marquette State Park, and the World Shooting Complex, hunting hours are from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Hunters with reservations or permits are required to check in at the check station between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. (between 8:00 and 8:30 a.m. at Iroquois County and between 10:00 and 10:30 a.m. at Sangchris Lake State Park).

c) All hunters must be between the ages of 10 and 17 inclusive and have a youth hunting permit. Stand-by permits shall be issued by drawing held at the conclusion of check-in time when daily quotas are not filled. Hunters under age 18 are not required to pay a daily fee.

d) Depending on the availability of staff during the controlled pheasant hunting season, hunters may be required to deposit their hunting licenses in the check station while hunting. Each permit holder must be accompanied by a non-hunting supervisory adult. If the hunter does not have a valid Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) card, the supervisory adult is required to have a valid FOID card. Only one supervisory adult in a hunting party is required to have a valid FOID card if the hunters in the hunting party stay under the immediate control (accompany youth hunter at all times) of the supervisory adult possessing the valid FOID card. The supervising adult shall be criminally liable for the actions of the youth in the hunting party and shall be subject to the criminal penalties provided by law.

e) Supervising adults are required to wear a cap and upper outer garment of solid and vivid blaze orange of a least 400 square inches. Hunters must wear a back patch issued by the check station.

f) Persons who have killed game previously and have it in their possession or in their vehicle must declare it with the person in charge of the area prior to hunting on the area. All previously killed game found in a hunter's possession after hunting has started on the area will be considered illegally taken if the hunter has not declared it prior to going afield.

g) All hunting must be done with shotguns. Only shot shells with a shot size of #5 lead or a nontoxic shot size ballistically equivalent to No. 5 lead or smaller may be used, except at Chain O'Lakes State Park, Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area, Eldon Hazlet State Park, Horseshoe Lake State Park (Madison County), Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area, Johnson-Sauk Trail State Park, Lee County Conservation Area (Green River), Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area, Silver Springs State Park and Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park where only shot shells approved as nontoxic by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with a shot size ballistically equivalent to No. 5 lead or smaller may be used.

h) Daily Limit

i) All pheasants must be affixed with a Department tag before they are removed from the area. The tag must remain on the leg of the pheasants until the pheasants are finally prepared for consumption.

j) Violation of this Section is a petty offense (see 520 ILCS 5/2.6).