Mike Royko

Springing from his bar stool and twirling around, Slats Grobnik said: "What ya' think, do I look different?" You've always looked different from most people, or from most living creatures,...

If it were up to Monica Grayless, a school teacher, there would be no rally in the park to celebrate the Bulls championship. Instead, there would be a candlelight vigil...

Airman Jackson was a mess hall cook. Oh, he could load, aim and fire a carbine. And if he was sober, he might even have hit someone. But that wasn't...

The words of a famous economist keep running through my mind: "Anything can happen, and it probably will." When he said it, the economist was talking about the economy. But...

So I was walking down the dark city street when I saw this scowling, weird-eyed guy with an artificial metal hand. I stepped back into a doorway and watched him....

As Chicago cops go, Dave Snethen is a specialist in rough stuff. Until recently, he was in a unit that's like the SWAT teams you see in the movies. It...

Richard Esquinas, the California golfer who took Michael Jordan for the bundle, assures me that he's not a golf hustler. Honest. He's just kind of lucky. Maybe. But based on...

Given a choice, there are a lot of places I'd rather have been at about noon on Monday. Just about any place in the United States would have done, except...

Professional basketball has become wildly popular in recent years. The TV ratings of playoff games are soaring, the league has expanded all over the country and the top players are...

To those of us who twitch and hyperventilate over each Bulls playoff drama, it's hard to believe that there really are Chicagoans who just don't care. I know several of...