Transferring work from Illustrator CS4 to In Design CS4

I recently started using Adobe In Design for a book layout. I haven't used the program before, but am I finding it relatively easy to get around. However, I have just encountered an issue, where I am trying to get a drawing of an entire golf course from Illustrator to In Design. I have been inserting .jpg files easily into In Design, but when I make a .jpg of my Illustrator file and try to place it into In Design, the drawing looks terrible, it's badly pixelated and not at all readable. I tried to copy and paste also, straight from the illustrator file into In Design but the same thing happened.
Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!

jpg is always a bad idea -- its only rational use is to save photos in a smaller file format when quality is not important. Every time you resave a jpeg file, it gets recompressed and looks worse. That said, your jpeg file might not be as bad as it looks -- in order to work quickly, Indesign defaults to a lower-resolution preview. You can use View:Display Performance:High Quality Display to look at it in full resolution (though Indesign will work more slowly until you turn it back off again). And the true proof is in the printing -- print out a page.
As suggested, what you really want to do is place the Illustrator file directly into Indesign. This preserves all of your line art and text as line art, not pixels, and your output will be much cleaner. Also, in Indesign you can right-click (control-click) on the object and select "Edit Original" to open the original file in Illustrator to make changes, which is much more convenient the exporting a new jpeg file and relinking.

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