Who Is Big Mike?

Magnus Micchaellus

Michael G. Glab has been a writer, for better or for worse, for more than a quarter of a century.

His work as a journalist has appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine (notice a trend here?), Newcity, the Pulitzer-Lerner Newspapers, the publications of the National Safety Council and many, many more. He has covered City Hall, the police beat, real estate development, the public schools and more. He’s most proud of his series of in-depth feature profiles of Chicago artists, broadcasters, professional athletes and other colorful characters.

Big Mike has written the book, “Coping with the Cubs,” a memoir of clinical depression and fandom. He has also ghostwritten “The Big Book of Green Design,” a guide to Earth-friendly practices for the marketing and advertising industry.

He has co-written the comedy screenplay, “The Made Man,” with the immortal Sidney T. Feldman, and is now working on another screenplay, “Black Comedy,” a story of race, family and politics in late 60s and early 70s Chicago.

After two and a half years in Louisville, Kentucky, Big Mike now lives in Bloomington, Indiana. He still considers Chicago home in his heart. He misses good pizza, Wrigley Field, Lawrence’s Fisheries, the Matchbox (where he met The Loved One) and the Field Museum. He doesn’t miss gridlock and crappy weather. He’s reasonably happy in the River City but remains suspicious of a town that considers the Hot Brown a local delicacy.

Links to some of Big Mike’s work:

“Fight Like a Man”

“The Slugger”

Read the articles or buy the book now. Come on – you can do it!