Mike Royko: Choose Your Own Adventure

Mike Royko wrote over 7500 columns in various Chicago newspapers, and for over 30 years, was lovingly discussed (or shredded apart) over the breakfast table. Read columns starring his mythical friend Slats Grobnik, and remind yourself what a Chicago accent really sounded like. Read "Boss" to dig into Mayor Daley's Chicago machine. Enjoy not-politically correct humor with his columns on dwarf tossing, or take on the politically and economically important people with his incisive wit and courage.

Guidelines: read some of Royko's work

• The Mount Prospect Public Library carries many of his books.
• Go to the Sun-Times or the Chicago Tribune websites and read a few of his columns https://www.chicagotribune.com/2022/04/28/take-a-look-back-at-mike-roykos-chicago-tribune-columns-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-his-death/

Select one or more excerpts that you find hilarious, horrifying, still relevant, or didn't age well. Revisiting an old friend (or enemy) is an interesting way to understand how our tastes have changed (or not).