Remembering Otto: When Gene Schlickman was elected from Arlington Heights to the first of his eight terms in the Illinois House in 1964, the late Otto Kerner had just defeated Charles Percy to win ...

A daylong look at the life and legacy of a former Illinois governor who led a ground-breaking national ... The Governor’s Conference on Otto Kerner begins at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 2 and will include a ...

One of the surprises of last week's state elections was the solid triumph of Illinois Governor Otto Kerner against the spirited challenge of Republican Charles Percy (TIME cover, Sept. 18) -a ...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich is the latest in a string of modern Illinois governors who have run afoul of the law. He follows in the footsteps of George H. Ryan, Daniel Walker and Otto Kerner.

In May 1976, just four months before Otto Kerner’s death from cancer, Chicago news media members organized a testimonial dinner for the former Illinois governor. It was an odd event to some, who ...

Otto Kerner (1961-1968) Convicted on bribery chargers, former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner, center, was driven from the Federal Building after receiving a three-year sentence in 1973.

On this day, April 9, in 1973, Otto Kerner, a former governor of Illinois, was convicted for taking bribes in an illegal horse racetrack scheme. Kerner had been appointed a federal appeals judge ...

Otto Kerner was indicted seven months later and convicted in 1973. The federal prosecutors focused on profitable racetrack stock he’d acquired in the late 60s while he was governor of Illinois ...

President Lyndon Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, following a series of urban riots in 1967. The report was ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner's complex legacy will be the focus of an upcoming conference at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.