Born into a tavern-owning family in a rough Polish neighborhood in the northwestern part of Chicago, Mike Royko (1932-1997) became one of America's premier political and social commentators. In their work Chicago's Public Wits: A Chapter in the...

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Mike Royko was born on September 19, 1932 in Chicago, the city in which he lived most of his life, and it was as a distinctively Chicagoan journalist that he earned nationwide fame. Royko's journalism awards...

Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a longtime newspaper columnist in Chicago,...

He was cantankerous, soft-hearted, infuriating, earthy, bullheaded, funny. He was loved. He was hated. He was read. 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...

One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko. By Mike Royko. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999; pp. xviii + 275. $22.00 cloth; $12.00 paper. For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko. By Mike Royko. Chicago: University...

Today is Sunday, April 29, the 119th day of 2007. There are 246 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 29, 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp; the same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated...

[In the following obituary, Crimmins and Kogan offer a full appreciation of Royko's life and career.]

[In the following essay, Somers assesses Royko's talents as a satirist.]

[In the following obituary, Pasternak focuses on Royko's orneriness and some of the backlash it brought him.]