The Toughest Man in Chicago" is playing to sold out audiences at the Chopin Theatre, and got rave reviews from the critics.

While it loses focus when covering Royko's later, weaker years, actor-writer Mitchell Bisschop's one-man show nails the ...

Mitchell Bisschop has created a show that is a celebration of the man’s journalistic brilliance, not a dissection of his ...

Royko: The Toughest Man in Chicago” is mainly, and justifiably, about the public issues confronted and battles fought by a ...

The Los Angeles writer, director and producer Mitchell Bisschop grew up in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. But he didn’t really ...

When I wrote the obituary of Mike Royko in late April 1997, I did not expect to ever spend time with him again, except in the pages of his books, those many collections of his newspaper columns ...

The 1971 book by iconic columnist Mike Royko expertly documents the rise of Mayor Richard J. Daley and his construction of the Democratic Machine that lived on well beyond Daley's reign.

Beloved Chicago columnist Mike Royko and power broker Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley grew up in similar environments. Royko ...

Writer and actor Mitchell Bisschop joins Rick Kogan to talk about the world premiere of his one-man show that explores the life of Chicago newspaper veteran Mike Royko. Bisschop’s show “Royko: The ...

Shamus has details on: One-Man Show About Iconic Chicago Journalist Mike Royko Coming To Chopin Theater: Opening Thursday at the Chopin Theatre, “Royko: The Toughest Man in Chicago” brings the story ...

Forty-some years ago, I wrote a letter to Mike Royko, and he wrote back. Royko was then one of the country’s most celebrated journalists, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and the bestselling ...

Second of two articles looking back on Chicago newspapers in 1968. 1-Sep-24 – Big-time newspaper reporting in Chicago in 1968 ...