Mike Royko

Betty Whitters, 71, of Oak Lawn believes that because she is a grandmother, an auto-repair shop took advantage of her. And she wants me to sound the alarm to other...

Let's consider the following chain of events. Sometime after midnight, two white cops pull a car over for having a dead taillight. In the car are two black men. The...

This is one of those stories about which we can say, all's well that ends well. A few days ago, I wrote about Salvador, the 34-year-old man who took advantage...

There can come a sad moment in some marriages when both sides finally know that the magic has faded away. That's the way it was with Richard, a Chicago lawyer....

It's time for baseball and other sports to get serious about changing team names that are considered offensive. This year we have two teams in the World Series with names--Braves...

(I wanted to drop Mel Reynolds a note, but I don't have his current prison mailing address, so I'll do it here and assume that he gets the newspaper.) Mel:...

It has been pointed out to me that I recently overlooked an outstanding example of a wealthy white guy being convicted of murdering his wife. These cases are worth looking...

This is going to be a diary. A very short diary. It is being written with trembling fingers on a laptop computer. Sunday, 9:40 a.m.: For the last 20 minutes,...

It was just a little more than a year ago that Mayor Richard Daley was being loudly whacked by political enemies and much of the media for Chicago's soaring murder...