<\/a>Mike Royko<\/p><\/div>\n
A graduate of Pennsylvania State University who also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, Warren began her career at the fabled City News Bureau of Chicago in 1969 and joined the former Chicago Daily News where she became columnist Mike Royko\u2019s first female legman. She went on to cover local government and politics in Chicago and various beats in Washington, D.C., first for the Daily News and later for the Sun-Times and Knight Ridder newspapers. She returned to Chicago and joined the Tribune in 1993.<\/p>\n
In 1997 she was inducted in the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the Trib and I\u2019m grateful to Mike Royko, who really gave me my first break,\u201d Warren said. \u201cHe was a great mentor, a great friend and my son\u2019s godfather. Without him, God knows what would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although she\u2019d been planning to step down for months, Warren said many of her Tribune colleagues expressed surprise when they heard she was calling it quits. \u201cI guess they thought I\u2019d just sit in my chair and turn skeletal, and then they\u2019d just wheel me out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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