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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael Mike Royko (September 19, 1932 - April 29, 1997) was a newspaper columnist in Chicago, who won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his thirty year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Mike Royko grew up in Chicago, living in an apartment above a bar. His mother, Helen (nee Zak), was Polish, and his father, Michael Royko, Ukrainian (born in Dolina). He briefly attended Wright Junior College and then enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1952. On becoming a columnist, he drew on experiences from his childhood. He began his newsman's career as a columnist in 1955 for The O'Hare News (Air Force base newspaper), the City News Bureau of Chicago and Lerner Newspapers' Lincoln-Belmont Booster before working at the Chicago Daily News as a reporter, becoming an irritant to the City's Democratic Machine politicians with penetrating and skeptical questions and reports.

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