Governor Richard Ogilvie: In the Interest of the State

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Contents Preface 1. Turning Points: 1944 and I969 2. Inauguration and Transition: The Days of Ogilvie's Governorship 3. A Political Career on the Line . . . . . . 4. From Sheriff to Cook County Board President 5. The Accardo Case: Taking on the Big Tuna . 6. The 1968 Campaign and Vote ...... . 7. Bourbons in the Senate, Scandal in the High Court 8. Proposed, Debated, Passed: The State Income Tax 9. More Ogilvie Coups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10. Constitutional Convention: A Triumph amid Setbacks 11. War on Polluters . . . . . . . 12. Campus Riots and the Guard. . . 13. Winning Control of the Budget . 14. Ogilvie in Person and in the Press 15. Prisons, Highways, and Other Ventures 16. Dorothy Ogilvie . . . . . . . . . . 17. Powell's Cash and Racetracks: Public Anger Boils. 18. Political Death 19. Afterward . . . . Notes ..... . Select Bibliography . Index . .... . illustrations follOWing page 94 ix 1 11 29 38 59 65 82 95 108 119 145 160 171 188 209 226 234 247 261 271 285 287 ...