Download or read book Governor Richard Ogilvie written by Taylor Pensoneau and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1997-12-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.