It was the great defense attorney Clarence Darrow who was credited with positing that lost causes are the only ones worth ...

New Asolo Rep Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein stages the classic drama about the Scopes Monkey Trial and teaching ...

They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt.A hundred years later, it is remembered as far ...

An affordable example of a Wright home, Walser House has been unoccupied since 2019 and now faces foreclosure. It needs ...

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

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. Shamus has details on: Neighbors Honor Clarence Darrow 100 ...

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

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 ...

The last brief witness Frank E. Robinson was a local druggist who expressed his opinion that using the above biology book ...

He said, of the seven buildings, there are a few that stand out, including Clarence Darrow Bridge and the Central Manufacturing District Tower in McKinley Park. The Delaware Building, at Dearborn ...