As Walker notes, the hike provided voters with a rare look at a politician actually working. The physical exertion of walking 1,197 miles on hot summer Illinois roads made an impression.

“The people out there didn’t see a politician walking at all,” Walker told the Sun-Times in 2002. “They saw a man walking.” He started in Brookport, across the river from Paducah, Kentucky.

Former Illinois Governor and longtime Democratic politician Dan Walker has passed away. Walker was the state's 36th governor and served one term from 1973 to 1977. He died Wednesday, April 29 ...

Daniel J. Walker’s career took him from a Chicago corporate boardroom to an attention-grabbing political trek across Illinois that led to the governor’s mansion, before closing with a federal ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois Governor Dan Walker died early Wednesday morning at his home in Chula Vista, California. He was 92 years old. Walker was elected Illinois governor in 1972. While ...

Dan Walker, seated, pauses to talk to residents in front of Cox’s General Store and the post office in Rosebud, Ill., on July 9, 1971, during a break in his state-long walk to draw attention to ...