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Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois, who won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, 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. The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily Newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago Illinois. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily Newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Tribune is a major daily Newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and owned by the Tribune Company

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Young reporter

Mike Royko grew up in Chicago, living in an apartment above a bar. His mother was Polish and his father Ukrainian. [1] On becoming a columnist, he drew experiences from his childhood, becoming the voice of the Everyman Chicago. Although caustically sarcastic, he never condescended to his readers, he always remembered he was one of them.

Royko began his newsman's career as a columnist for the Naval Air Station Glenview newspaper and the City News Bureau of Chicago before working at the Chicago Daily News as a political reporter, becoming an irritant to the City's Democratic Machine politicians with penetrating and skeptical questions and reports. Naval Air Station Glenview or NAS Glenview was an operational U City News Bureau of Chicago, or City Press, was a News bureau that served as one of the first Cooperative News agencies in the United States The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily Newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago Illinois.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author

Reporter Mike Royko covered Cook County politics and government in a weekly political column, soon supplemented with a second, weekly column reporting about Chicago's folk music scene. Cook County is a county in the US state of Illinois. It is the second most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous The success of those columns earned him regular writing about all topics for the Daily News, a liberal afternoon newspaper. In 1972, Royko received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary as a Daily News man. The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary has been awarded since 1970 Political criticism (also referred to as political commentary or political discussion) is Criticism that is specific of or relevant to Politics

Boss (1971), Royko's unauthorized biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley spent 26 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Boss (1971), Royko's unauthorized biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley spent 26 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. The New York Times Best Seller List is widely considered to be the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

When the Daily News closed, Royko worked for its allied morning newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily Newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. In 1984, when Rupert Murdoch bought the Sun-Times, for whom he said he would never work: No self-respecting fish would be wrapped in a Murdoch paper and that, His goal is not quality journalism. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American His goal is vast power for Rupert Murdoch, political power. Mike Royko then worked for the rival Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune is a major daily Newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and owned by the Tribune Company For a period after the takeover, the Sun-Times reprinted Royko's columns, while new columns appeared in the Tribune. [1]

He died of a brain aneurysm at age sixty-four. A cerebral aneurysm or brain aneurysm is a cerebrovascular disorder in which weakness in the wall of a cerebral Artery or Vein His columns were syndicated country-wide in more than 600 newspapers, more than 7,500 columns in a four-decade career. He also wrote or compiled dozens of "That's Outrageous!" columns for Reader's Digest. Reader's Digest is a monthly general-interest family Magazine co-founded in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace.

Many columns are collected in books; yet, his most famous book remains his unauthorized biography of Richard J. Daley, Boss, the best-selling non-fiction book portrait of Daley as corrupt and racist; it is a principal book about Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago under his mayoralty. Richard Joseph Daley ( May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago On its publishing, the Mayor of Chicago forced 200 Chicago private bookstores to not stock Boss, but public demand for the book over-rode the Mayor, and book stores sold Boss, later, the Mayor's wife was caught vandalizing copies.

Like many columnists, Mike Royko created fictitious mouthpieces with whom he could "converse"; the most famous being Slats Grobnik, the epitome working class Polish-Chicagoan. Generally, the Slats Grobnik columns were two men discussing a current event in a Polish neighborhood bar. In 1973, Royko collected several columns as Slats Grobnik and Other Friends. Another of Royko's characters was his pseudo-psychiatrist Dr. I. M. Kookie (eponymous protagonist of Dr. Kookie, You're Right! [1989]). Dr. Kookie, purportedly founder of the Asylumism religion, according to which Earth was settled by a higher civilisation's rejected insane people, satirize pop culture and pop psychology.

16-inch softball and the Cubs

Royko was a lifelong fan and critic of the Chicago Cubs. The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. Just prior to the 1990 World Series he wrote about the findings of another fan, Ron Berler, who had discovered a seemingly spurious correlation called the "Ex-Cubs Factor". The 1990 World Series matched the defending champions and heavily-favored Oakland Athletics against the Cincinnati Reds, with the Reds sweeping the Series in four The Ex-Cub Factor is a seemingly Spurious correlation that is essentially a corollary to the Curse of the Billy Goat. He predicted that the heavily-favored Oakland Athletics would lose the Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati Ohio, USA The accuracy of that unlikely prediction, in stunning fashion (four game sweep) propelled the Ex-Cubs Factor theory into the spotlight.

The book Carl Erskine's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout: Extra Innings (2004) includes short stories from former Dodger pitcher Carl Erskine. Carl Erskine's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout Extra Innings is a book by former Major League Baseball All-Star Pitcher Carl Daniel Erskine (born December 13 1926 in Anderson Indiana) is a former right-handed Starting pitcher in Major League Baseball Royko is prominent in many of these stories.

He was also fervently devoted to 16-inch softball and was inducted into the Chicago 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame shortly after his death, an honor Royko's family insists he would have considered as meaningful as his Pulitzer. Softball is a team Sport popular especially in the United States.

Honors and final resting place

To follow up on his 1972 Pulitzer Prize, Royko won the National Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990 and the Damon Runyon Award in 1995. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995

The "Royko Two Arrival" is an IFR arrival procedure at O'Hare International Airport.

Mike Royko is entombed in Acacia Mausoleum, Acacia Park Cemetery, Chicago. Acacia Park Cemetery is located in Chicago Illinois at 7800 West Irving Park Road

Trivia

Books by Mike Royko

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