Editing Mike Royko (section)

==Early life and education==
Royko was born and grew up in [[Chicago]], where he lived in an apartment above a bar. His mother, Helen (née Zak), was [[Polish American|Polish]], and his father, Michael Royko, was [[Ukrainian American|Ukrainian]] (born in [[Dolyna]]).<ref name="Scrib">{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Kenneth T.|first2=Karen|last2=Markoe|author3=Arnie Markoe|title=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1997–1999|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=1998|pages=499–501|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QsOn9_NviAC&q=Royko|isbn=0-684-80663-0 }}</ref> He briefly attended [[Wright Junior College]] and then enlisted in the [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] in 1952.<ref name="LitJourn">{{cite book|last=Applegate|first=Edd|title=Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1996|pages=[https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl/page/221 221]–223|url=https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl|url-access=registration|quote=Royko.|isbn=0-313-29949-8}}</ref>