I just finished Slats Grobnik and Some Other Friends by Mike Royko and I loved it. Royko wrote columns for the short-lived Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times until Rupert Murdoch bought it, and finally for the Chicago Tribune. He was always the straight-shooting voice of the working class — calling out politicians and voters alike. The fictional Slats Grobnik is Royko’s neighborhood Huck Finn and, through him, he lampoons city life. This collection of columns is laugh-out-loud funny. For a more serious read, we also have Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago. If Royko were alive, I might consider reading the Tribune.