Galloway attended the University of Oklahoma and worked at the school's alumni magazine for ten years after serving in the United States Army.
He wrote articles on a wide range of serious news and light topics and was selected to author the newspaper's deadline story marking the December 1976 death of longtime-Mayor Richard J.
[1] While at the Sun-Times, Galloway co-authored Bagtime with columnist Bob Greene, a serial told from the perspective of fictitious supermarket bagger Mike Holiday which ran in 1977 and 1978.
The columns became the source for a book published under the same name that was also turned into a stage musical directed by Robert Falls at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre and a television pilot shot for the Fox Broadcasting Company by Bruce Helford.
[1][2] He switched over to the Chicago Tribune in 1984, where he served as the religion columnist and wrote stories ranging from personality profiles to weightier matters.