Three decades ago, before DNR was gathered and grouped in a glass headquarters on the Illinois State Fairgrounds, biologists and other staff worked in random offices scattered around Springfield.
Let’s say you were a newspaper reporter in the Capital City and you wanted to talk to someone about a squirrel problem. There as no Internet to speak of, so you needed a map and library card just to figure out who was doing what, and where.
Illinois loses biologist who had big impact, bigger laugh in Bob Bluett
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