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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Scopes trial, also called the 'monkey trial,' was a landmark legal case in 1925 Tennessee that challenged a ban on teaching evolution in schools. Initially a publicity stunt, it became a ...

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

Owner Steven DeGraff says his plans for a residential conversion of the Delaware Building are hindered by a long-term lease ...