CHICAGO (November 22, 2005) -
WHAT:
The Newberry Library, Chicago's world-renowned independent research library, will exhibit select items from a collection of papers and memorabilia that were saved by Mike Royko, the legendary Chicago newspaperman and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Judy Royko, his widow, donated the personal collection to the Library last summer.
Items that will be on public display include:
Royko's employment application essay for the City News Bureau of Chicago, dated March 12, 1959.
Royko's famed Rolodex
A letter to Royko from May of 1972 confirming he had received the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Royko's reporter's notebook
The entire collection, which is now publicly available for research by scholars and other researchers, measures 20 cubic feet and includes materials dated from 1945 to 1997. The donation is the most recent addition to the Newberry's archives of more than 50 famed Chicago journalists' works that are housed within the journalism manuscript collections as part of the Library's nationally recognized Midwest Manuscripts Collection.
WHEN:
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 through Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006
WHERE:
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, Ill.
The Newberry Library is an independent library open to the public for research and reference in the humanities. One of the largest independent research libraries in the United States, the Newberry holds an extraordinary collection of more than 1.5 million books, 5 million manuscript pages and three hundred thousand historic maps. As one of the world's leading repositories of a broad range of books and manuscripts relating to the civilizations of western Europe and the Americas, the Library's mission is to acquire and preserve research collections of such materials, and to provide for and promote their effective use by a diverse community of users. For more information, visit www.newberry.org.