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Huge cat roaming northern Chicago

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Published: March. 30, 2008 at 1:02 PM

CHICAGO, March 30 (UPI) -- Animal control and police officials are telling people north of Chicago to be on the lookout for a large cat, thought to be a roaming cougar.

Authorities made a plaster cat of a large footprint discovered in a wooded area of Lake County Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday.

"We know it's large just by the footprint it made," North Chicago Mayor Leon Rockingham said of the cat.

A Lake County resident reported seeing the big feline Thursday.

"This thing was huge. At first I actually thought it was a deer," said North Chicago resident Cheryl Coleman in the Lake County News Sun.

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