While in the woods at the "Little Red Schoolhouse" preserves we discovered animal tracks in the mud on the trails that were deeper in the woods. They were not Coyote tracks, but did display pad and nail impressions. They were rather large - near to the size of the palm of my hand with a rather raised impression around the pad indentation. What is out there in the woods that would make this track...it would be rather large and heavy. Are there badgers in Illinois? What could it have been?