You cannot have any venemous reptiles in Illinois. I used to be on here about 7 years ago. I lived most of my life from birth in Chicago. At one time the law said no poisonous reptiles and as we know snakes are venomous not poisonous, so I had 2 Mangroves. Some people will ship others will not. I had shipments made by Delta Dash and I picked up at O'Hare.Of course this was back in 2000. I have since moved. I hope this helps.