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A sign saying "Welcome to Chicago" from the 1968 Democratic National Convention burns during protests in Chicago.
By the time Mike Royko died in 1997, he had written nearly 8,000 columns — about half of them for the Tribune — and had become a part of the daily fabric of Chicago life.
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange work frantically as panic selling swept Wall Street in this Oct. 19, 1987 file photo.
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