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Mike Royko's columns were a fixture in Chicago newspapers for more than three decades before his death from heart failure at age 64 on April 29, 1997. From 1984 until his death, his column appeared on Page 3 of the Tribune and was syndicated to more than 600 newspapers nationwide. As a young man, Royko abandoned college and joined the Air Force, where he was trained as a radio operator. He served for a time near Seoul during the Korean War, and when he returned to the United States he was stationed at O'Hare Field, then a military base. In 1955, to avoid becoming a military policeman, he applied for a job on the base newspaper. He later worked for the City News Bureau, the Chicago Daily News...
Mike Royko's columns were a fixture in Chicago newspapers for more than three decades before his death from heart failure at age 64 on April 29, 1997. From 1984 until his death, his column appeared on Page 3 of the Tribune and was syndicated to more than 600 newspapers nationwide. As a young man, Royko abandoned college and joined the Air Force, where he was trained as a radio operator. He served for a time near Seoul during the Korean War, and when he returned to the United States he was stationed at O'Hare Field, then a military base. In 1955, to avoid becoming a military policeman, he applied for a job on the base newspaper. He later worked for the City News Bureau, the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times. His 1971 non-fiction book "Boss" was a look at the machine politics of Mayor Richard J. Daley.
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Richard M. Daley, Chicago mayor, boss and Obama mentor, calls it quits next year
Top of the TicketBig-city Democratic boss retires after 21 years, setting off a political succession scramble including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.... -
History lesson: Why Jerry Brown is called 'Moonbeam'
Top of the TicketIn 1976, a Chicago newspaper columnist wrote that Jerry Brown would get "the moonbeam vote." The writer was Mike Royko, who then started referring to the then-38-year-old Brown as "Gov. Moonbeam." Royko was suggesting that Brown was attracting California'... -
Book review: 'Dreams & Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun' by Steve Lopez
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDreams & Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun Steve Lopez Camino Books: 309 pp., $17.95 paper At most newspapers the first-person singular pronoun, like the nuclear football, is entrusted to one person at a time. Usually cityside columns go to native...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Politics, Lana Turner, Periodicals, Roger Mahony
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On the crime beat with St. Clair McKelway
The New Yorker, as J.D. Salinger's recent death served to remind us, has been a crucial outlet for writers for more than 80 years. A.J. Liebling, Lillian Ross, Joseph Mitchell, Calvin Trillin -- these are just a few of the voices the magazine has...Tags: Crimes, Journalism, Newspaper and Magazine, Periodicals, Crime, Law and Justice
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Jerry Brown -- California's Marathon Man
MARTIN F. NOLAN covered national politics for the Boston Globe for 40 years.IN 1972, Robert Redford played the title role in "The Candidate," a movie about a young California politician with an uneasy relationship with his father, a former governor played by Melvyn Douglas. Ever since, Jerry Brown has been a mirror and a...Tags: Republican Party, Noam Chomsky, Primaries, Regional Authority, Lobbying
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Gov. Moonbeam 2.0?
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ Some people might think that it's way too early to begin planning for the 2010 race for governor, when term limits will force Arnold Schwarzenegger to step down and the seat will be open for the first time...Tags: Crimes, Republican Party, Lawyers, Primaries, Judges
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Have Heat supplanted Yankees as team America loves to hate? (Vote)
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Goat completes long journey to Wrigley Field
The 1,764-mile, 95-day journey from Mesa, Ariz., to Wrigley Field ended Tuesday for five guys and a goat. Then came the hard part: getting the goat inside the ballpark he's named after. It failed, as the Cubs denied them permission. The group left Mesa...
Tags: Memorial Day, Ron Santo, Cancer, Thomas Ricketts, Billy Goat Tavern
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HATE for Heat is No. 1 reason to watch NBA playoffs
Hear ye, hear ye!
It's that time once again, fellow Miami Heat Haters.
Time for an emergency meeting of the royal and fraternal order of HATE (Heat Are The Enemy).
As you probably know, I am the founding father, CEO and general manager of HATE —...Tags: Goldman Sachs, Stan Van Gundy, Miami Heat, Chris Bosh, NBA Playoffs
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Your Morning Phil: Williams, Johnson, Youkilis
Tribune ReporterTalking baseball while wondering what the late Mike Royko would think of his Cubs these days: 1. Oh, so this is what Ken Williams was talking about? Late in March, Williams sat in his golf cart at a back field in Glendale, Ariz., watching the White...Tags: Joe Crede, Chicago White Sox, Jesse Crain, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Ozzie Guillen
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Pizza, posters help Chicago expats cope
Let me tell you how this story started. It began with a plea from a guy named Tim Wise, who recently moved from Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood to the purported paradise of Santa Cruz, Calif. "Have you ever written a column on coping with...
Tags: Pizzas, Foods and Beverages, Politics, Ernest Hemingway, Marshall Field
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Executive profile: Kathleen Brown
A Goldman Sachs executive was at a Chicago dinner party recently when a fellow guest, hearing she had just relocated from California, asked what she thought of the new governor there. The executive, Goldman's chairman of investment banking for the...
Tags: Fordham University, Religion and Belief, Companies and Corporations, Genes and Chromosomes, Naha
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