UI officials applauding survey proposal
The state's four scientific surveys are all located at the University of Illinois and have been pretty much since their inceptions, which date to the 1800s in the case of the Illinois Natural History and Water surveys.
The Illinois State Geological Survey came along a few years later, in 1905, and the Waste Management and Research Center, founded in 1985, is the relative newcomer.
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