Illo was selected 136th overall by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft from the Tri-City Storm in the United States Hockey League.
He stayed with the Admirals for almost three months and played seventeen games for the team before he was required by Idaho Steelheads.
[3] In 2016, Illo signed for the Missouri Mavericks and had his most productive season in his professional career, scoring twelve goals and twenty-seven points in fifty-three games.
[4] Illo had a try-out with PSG Berani Zlín of the Czech Extraliga on July 24, 2017, and signed a contract with the team one month later.
Illo as a 28 years old retired from professional sports and now he has his own hockey school and works in Sales at Fundraising University.