Lt. Gov. Kernan at Helm After Governor’s Stroke
Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan assumed the duties of acting governor as Gov. Frank O’Bannon lay in critical condition after a stroke.
Doctors said that O’Bannon, 73, had evidence of brain damage and that it was too soon to say whether he would recover. They said he would probably stay in an induced coma for several days.
O’Bannon, a Democrat in his second term, was found unconscious and near death on the floor of his Chicago hotel room Monday morning. He had suffered a type of stroke that involves bleeding in the brain.
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