CULTURETECHLENSMike Royko
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Combined Graph record U-00095 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-0061. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Newspaper columnist whose column career began in 1963 at the Chicago Daily News, moved to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1978 and to the Chicago Tribune in 1984; won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary; grew up over the family tavern on Chicago's Near Northwest Side; author of Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1971); died in 1997 aged 64 (Editor & Publisher obituary, May 3, 1997).
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Newspaper columnist whose column career began in 1963 at the Chicago Daily News, moved to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1978 and to the Chicago Tribune in 1984; won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary; grew up over the family tavern on Chicago's Near Northwest Side; author of Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1971); died in 1997 aged 64 (Editor & Publisher obituary, May 3, 1997).
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- Role(s): columnist
- City: Chicago
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- https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/mike-royko-dies-at-64-p-46,99263 (verification source · master store)
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Newspaper columnist whose column career began in 1963 at the Chicago Daily News, moved to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1978 and to the Chicago Tribune in 1984; won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary; grew up over the family tavern on Chicago's Near Northwest Side; author of Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1971); died in 1997 aged 64 (Editor & Publisher obituary, May 3, 1997).
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