Turkey Take Totals for Spring 2024 Season

Illinois hunters harvested a preliminary statewide record total of 17,208 wild turkeys during the 2024 Illinois spring turkey season.

This year's total compares with the 2023 statewide harvest of 16,123 and previous harvest record total of 16,,569, set during the spring season in 2006.

Here are the totals for area counties:

Clay--295, up from 270 in 2023

Cumberland--77, down from 95

Effingham--170, up from 129

Fayette--345, up from 277

Jasper--199, up from 140

Shelby--158, up one from 2023.