CHICAGO — No one knew Chicago like Mike Royko, and no one spread the gospel of the Cubs like the late Chicago Tribune columnist.
It was those columns that first attracted me to Royko, who was then a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Daily News, famous for sparring with Mayor Richard J. Daley.
I grew up in a Tribune household, so in order to read Royko I had to wait for the paperboy to deliver the Daily News, an afternoon paper, to a neighbor’s house. I’d sit on their front porch, carefully take off the rubber band, remove the front section and open it to read whatever gem Royko delivered that day.
