The famously agnostic attorney and Hyde Park resident fought a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in a case that ...

As he has done every year for almost two decades, Scott Burgh, a retired law library director, descended the grassy incline ...

The Chicago-based lawyer led the charge in multiple high-profile cases, including defending Tennessee high school teacher Thomas Scopes for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in the ...

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school ...

Also unusual was a Knoxville man involved in the trial. John Randolph Neal Jr. represented defendant John Scopes, the Rhea ...

Two South Side churches, two industrial icons and a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Austin round out Preservation Chicago's ...

Jackson Park’s Darrow Bridge is one of Chicago’s “most endangered” public assets, according to an annual list released by ...

1958: Nathan Leopold, who was convicted with Richard Loeb in the “perfect murder” of Bobby Franks in 1924, was released from ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was ...

The Scopes trial became sensational largely because it brought together two long-time adversaries and powerful speakers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Bryan, a former secretary of ...