Word: royko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's recent riots in the city's Puerto Rican section resulted in eight persons shot and dozens more injured by rocks and flying glass. No one was more riled than Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko. But as usual, Mike's anger had an unexpected target. Mayor Richard Daley, he wrote, was quite right when he blamed the trouble on "outside influences." One of those out side influences, continued Royko, "was Mayor Daley. He manages to attend many wakes in his part of town. But when the Puerto Ricans invited him to a banquet last week...