 On April 14 , 2008 , police shot and killed a cougar on the north side of Chicago , Illinois . DNA tests were consistent with cougars from the Black Hills of South Dakota . Less than a year later , on March 5 , 2009 , a cougar was photographed and unsuccessfully <unk> by state wildlife biologists in a tree near <unk> , Wisconsin , in the northwestern part of the state . 
