As I looked for pictures to include in the book, Royko In Love, digging through boxes I hadn't opened in years, I realized that I had far more than the book had space for. I have posted some of this additional material here.

If you haven't read book but want to know more, click here for the March, 2009 Chicago Magazine story.

Royko In Love - Plus #1

Mom, Dad, the base in Blaine, the house on Central,

some friends and family

1952-1954

Royko In Love - Plus #2

From the years after they got married, visiting Don Karaiskos, Dad and his sibs and mother, Mom & Dad around the time he began his column, Marion & Pete Belushi, and Mom with my brother and me at the summer house

Dad wrote about in his column,

A November Farewell

1958-1975

Royko In Love - Plus #3

Pin-up pics and other cheesecake -- no doubt about it,

Mom was a knockout

Early 1950s