The Governor’s Conference on Otto Kerner begins at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 2 and will include a critical look at what happened to Kerner. Among panelists is Anton Kerner, son of the late governor, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late Otto Kerner was the governor of Illinois when he supposedly deprived the citizens of the state of his honest services, and he was a federal appellate judge when he was indicted in 1971.

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 ...

Read more. 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.

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 ...

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.

Kerner was a Chicago Democrat who won his first term in 1960. As governor, he modernized state services for the mentally ill and backed a statewide system of community colleges.