Mike Royko

For many years, Tom Flynn has handled an unpleasant but necessary job as well as can be expected. He is president and owner of a cemetery, Homewood Memorial Gardens in...

A Chicago corporation recently received an ominous letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The letter said: "You are hereby notified that a charge of employment discrimination has been filed...

It's always been my policy to keep an open mind and be receptive to new ideas. So I have been listening closely to those soccer fans who say I'm a...

Whatever happens to Hans Morsbach, the Hyde Park restaurant owner being hounded by federal bureaucrats, he's now had his case brought to the attention of Congress. Rep. John Porter, normally...

Kevin Perkins, 28, is starting to feel like one of those characters featured on TV shows about America's most wanted fugitives. The first time it happened was last summer. He...

"There's something I don't understand," said Slats Grobnik. I can think of more than one. What is it this time-the rules of soccer? "Nah, it's this generation thing." What generation...

There is only one issue that interests me in the O.J. Simpson case: Is he or is he not a brutal, nightmarish murderer? Everything else, as far as I'm concerned,...

The jobs at Koch Poultry Co. are not exactly high-tech. The workers stand in a cold, damp room at a table waiting for raw chicken breasts to come down a...

`If I don't get excited about this soccer stuff," Slats said, "does that mean I ain't a good patriotic Chicagoan?" Well, this is a unique event for our city and...

Here it is, only June, and I've already taken care of most of my Christmas shopping. It happened by chance, when I flipped through an obscure magazine in a doctor's...