Mike Royko

It's difficult for Ben Presto to carry on a telephone conversation. His other line keeps ringing. "There it goes again," he says. "Hold on, I'll be back in a minute."...

There are many ways to measure the economic prosperity of a society: gross national product, manufacturing, growth, exports and so on. But an entirely new measure has been developed by...

Now it is time to find those to blame for the incredibly tragic life and death of Robert Sandifer, who was a both a suspected killer and a murder victim...

Sure, we have the great restaurants, nightspots, museums, shopping and sports events. But here's another example of why Chicago can be so exciting a destination for conventions and business meetings....

Join me in taking a simple arithmetic test. You need answer only true or false. Q-The number 55 is bigger than the number 42. A-False. The number 42 is much...

It was once my privilege to be challenged to a public duel by Frank Sinatra. He was upset because I questioned the wasteful assignment of several Chicago cops to guard...

Let us once again consider the strange workings of the bureaucratic mind. There are many businesses, big and small, that require prompt mail delivery. Some live or die by it....

It was about three years ago that I got a call from a lovely young woman, pleading for help in an unusual and romantic emergency. Irena Haramic and Max Popovich,...

I would have guessed that any teacher would have been delighted with a new law in Georgia that requires all students to sit silently for as much as one minute...

Millions of weepy words have been written about the alleged pain and suffering of baseball fans since the players sulked away and the games ended. But there is no evidence...