Editing Mike Royko (section)

===Journalism===
On becoming a columnist, Royko drew on experiences from his childhood. He began his newsman's career as a columnist in 1955 for ''The O'Hare News'', a [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] newspaper, the [[City News Bureau of Chicago]] and [[Lerner Newspapers]]' ''[[Lerner Newspapers#Booster|Lincoln-Belmont Booster]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201048/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720141701/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201048/|url-status=dead|title=Mike Royko – St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture – Find Articles|date=July 20, 2012|archive-date=July 20, 2012|website=Archive.today|access-date=July 6, 2018}}</ref> before working at the ''[[Chicago Daily News]]'' as a reporter, becoming an irritant to the City's politicians with penetrating and skeptical questions and reports.

Royko covered [[Cook County, Illinois|Cook County]] politics and government in a weekly political column, soon supplemented with a second, weekly column reporting about Chicago's [[folk music]] scene. 

The success of those columns earned him a daily column in 1964, writing about all topics for the ''Daily News'', an afternoon newspaper.  His column appeared five days a week until 1992, when he cut back to four days a week.<ref>Terry, Don (1997). [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/30/us/mike-royko-the-voice-of-the-working-class-dies-at-64.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Mike Royko, the Voice of the Working Class, Dies at 64], ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> [[Studs Terkel]] explained Royko's incredible productivity and longevity by simply saying, "He is possessed by a demon."<ref>Terkel, p. 206</ref> In 1972, Royko received the [[Pulitzer Prize for Commentary|Pulitzer Prize for commentary]] as a ''Daily News'' columnist.