'Rags to riches' documentary of former governor coming.(News) Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) (1/10/2001)
...19th-century Democratic Illinois Gov. John Peter Altgeld. Years ago, he started reading about Altgeld and was fascinated by the celebrated man...family moved to America from Germany when John Peter was an infant. He grew up ...

Liberals push for one Democratic voice State group sees policy as key to party's future Chicago Sun-Times (7/5/1991)
...Among the founding members at Altgeld's first meeting during the 1988...David D. Orr, chairman of the Altgeld Institute, acknowledges it has...political visionaries, Gov. John Peter Altgeld, who freed Chicagoans railroaded...

Ryan's one term will at least be a notable one News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL) (6/23/2001)
...term (1893-1897) governor, John Peter Altgeld, who today is remembered as one of the state's greatest governors. Altgeld was vilified and condemned as a...election in 1898. George Ryan is no John Altgeld, but he has shown ...

Death Takes a Holiday.(Brief Article) The Nation (3/6/2000)
In 1893 John Peter Altgeld, the reform Democratic Governor of...the trial was a pure fabrication," Altgeld found. "No greater damage could possibly...That is the conclusion reached by Altgeld's current successor, Governor George...

Don't look for any Ryan Halls on state university campuses News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL) (10/22/2002)
...anti-death penalty stance, might also get the John Peter Altgeld Award for being courageous in the face of public...Illinois university campuses were adorned with Altgeld Halls, Gov. Altgeld, a Democrat just before the turn of the century...

thecapitolfaxblog.com SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL) (5/31/2009)
...of courage and character, I submit that John Peter Altgeld was the greatest governor of Illinois. Altgeld sacrificed his political career with the...advancement for simple justice, none since Altgeld measure up. Joshua I think that Gov...

Missing from the shelf: a biography of Ogilvie Chicago Sun-Times (5/16/1988)
...Illinois governors who mattered. When John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage...wrote about was former Illinois Gov. John Peter Altgeld (1893-97), who pardoned the...Northwestern University journalism professor John Bartlow Martin's ...

TOP FLICK | AURORA NATIVE PRODUCES WINNING FILM AT NIU Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL) (12/5/2000)
...Festival for its biography of Gov. John Peter Altgeld. The annual festival, held this...work on the biography of Gov. Altgeld who was the governor that worked...they finished the biography of Altgeld and took the documentary and their...

Gov scandal cloaks state's tradition of reform Chicago Sun-Times (IL) (12/17/2008)
...sometimes they actually accomplish reforms. In the 1890s, Gov. John Peter Altgeld saw three men wrongly jailed for the Haymarket bombing and had...Paul Simon ; Photo: Gov. Adlai Stevenson II ; Photo: Gov. John Peter Altgeld ;