Excerpt from Land-Use Problems in Illinois: Papers From a Symposium at the 137th Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, December 26-31, 1970
We shall use Illinois to illustrate several of our more pressing land-use problems and their relation to the environment. The problems are not unique to Illinois, nor are they new. Indeed, some of them have a long history.
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