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Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A humorist who focused on life in Chicago, he was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary .
Apr 30, 1997 · Mike Royko, the increasingly cantankerous voice for this city's little guys and working stiffs, whose newspaper column seemed as much a part of Chicago as the wind, died today at Northwestern...
Apr 28, 2022 · Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko died 25 years ago, Chicago. “Royko, a vital part of people’s daily lives, was the best newspaper columnist this city had ever known,” my friend...
Apr 28, 2022 · Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko in 1986, when he modeled a suit for a fashion story about the anatomy of a great suit. For much of his life, Royko put himself in the center of all that and...
Dec 24, 2023 · After Harold Washington won the mayoral election in 1983, Mike Royko pleaded the “white ethnic neighborhood people” to give him a chance.
With more than a hundred vintage Royko columns and with a foreword by Roger Ebert, For the Love of Mike is the answer. Read about the book. Many people were shocked by the recent news report of the two baseball players who swapped their wives, their children— even their dogs.
Royko's genius is pure Chicago."—Ann Landers. "A marvelous road map through four decades of America, from the Freedom Riders in Alabama to the Persian Gulf War to the failings of the Cubs."—Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune Books. "Mike Royko wasn't just the best columnist this town ever produced.
Apr 30, 1997 · Mike Royko, a self-described “flat-above-a-tavern youth” who became one of the best-known names in American journalism, wrote with a piercing wit and rugged honesty that reflected...
May 1, 1997 · Mike Royko, who died Tuesday at 64, was more than a Chicago legend, more than a throwback to the days when columnists smoked, drank, hired legmen and chased dames. He was a writer who made people...
Jul 15, 1999 · It’s been over two years since Mike Royko died, so it’s easy to forget what he wrote to earn his reputation. But the recently published collection One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko is a...
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