mywabashvalley.com (May 28) – Rebecca Smith, a pathobiology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, led a study that tracked three species of ticks across the state of Illinois: the lone star tick, the black-legged tick/deer tick, and the dog tick. She said that all three of these tick species “are likely present in every Illinois county.”
https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/illinois-tick-prevalence-study