Albert Dickens: the coolest cat in the newsroom
Tag: Mike Royko
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Herguth files
A Sun-Times reporter gathers the FBI’s files on the famous and infamous.
Posted inArts & Culture
A historic guidebook lover’s guide to Chicago
Which restaurant to avoid in 1857, which bar to visit in 1979, where to buy cheap carpet in 1994
Posted inBlogs
Can a Division Street cocktail bar truly capture the spirit of Nelson Algren?
The Neon Wilderness will try, but the phrase “Algren-inspired bar” makes Algren scholar Bill Savage groan.
Posted inNews & Politics
The Chicago Authenticity Police might be worse than actual cops
These self-appointed judges of Real Chicago are true jagoffs.
Posted inNews & Politics
John Kass is a real chumbolone
The Tribune‘s beer-can-chicken-obsessed columnist has managed to find ways to be ever more reactionary.
Posted inNews & Politics
Towing companies Worst of Chicago
On my way home from work one night in the summer of 2007, I parked in the lot of a shuttered Pizza Hut while I grabbed a burrito from La Pasadita. I’d made it about three steps out of the parking lot when I realized I didn’t have my wallet, so I turned around and […]
Posted inBlogs
If journalists know how to do anything, it’s salute our own
Contrary to Ben Hect’s immortal assertions
Posted inBlogs
Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story and the case against pseudonyms
Is use of a pseudonym a reporter’s mortal sin?
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Chicago: City on the Make vs. Boss: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round two
One of these literary heavyweights will have to defeat the other . . . by a nose.
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So what is a great Chicago book anyway?
Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament’s halfway point.
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Boss vs. I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round one
In the fourth bout of our tournament, the late, great Mike Royko squares off against himself.
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Another taste of how Chicago was when Jane Byrne ran things
A 1980 article makes us wonder: “What was that all about?”
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Mike Ditka is trapped in time at the 1992 Republican National Convention
The former Bears coach schools us on child abuse