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  <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Pulitzer prize columnist, Mike Royko was nationally known for his caustic sarcasm.  Over his 30 year career he wrote for three leading Chicago newspapers, &quot;The Daily News&quot;, &quot;The Sun-Times&quot;, and &quot;The Chicago Tribune&quot;, and was nationally syndicated.

The Polish-Ukranian son of a cab driver, Royko grew up on Chicago's southside and never left the city. At age 64, he died in Chicago of complications arising from a brain aneurysm in the spring of 1997. Royko was survived by his wife, Judy, a 9-year-old son, Sam, and 4-year-old daughter, Kate, as well as two grown children from his first marriage. His first wife, Carol, died in 1979. 

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  <title><![CDATA[Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago]]></title>
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  <published>1971</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sez Who? Sez Me]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Like I Was Saying]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dr. Kookie, You're Right!]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Slats Grobnik and some other friends]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Bob Verdi Collection]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mike Royko]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Bob Verdi]]></name>
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