Author: Taylor Pensoneau

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1997-12-08

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780809321483

In his second year in office, the Illinois Constitutional Convention produced the first new state charter in one hundred years. Ogilvie effected penal reform and was instrumental in upgrading the state's highway system. And in 1970 he established the machinery necessary to make Illinois a leader among states in the war on pollution.