I lived in Lake Forest years ago, and the place was chock full of cougars.
Really??? Well, I guess Lake Forest is on the “edge” of the development, or at least it was last time I was there (lots of very nice homes, and very large “lots”). May I ask when you lived there?
I guess if you saw a lot of them in Lake Forest, the sightings in Highland Park don’t seem quite so far-fetched after all. As for Schaumburg though - I can’t imagine a cougar living in the forest preserves around there. And this animal was seen in the MIDDLE of Schaumburg right across from the library - it’s hardly on the “edge” of development (unlike things were say 15 years ago with tons of farm fields past Poplar Creek).
I guess stranger things have happened, but I never would have imagined in a million years that I’d hear of a mountain lion/cougar/puma strutting around the ‘burbs... LOL