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 ...

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

The Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, shown on Feb. 13, was the scene of the famous Scopes Trial in 1925. The courthouse has a museum dedicated to the trial in its basement and also has statues of ...

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 ...

The list includes buildings in Bronzeville, Back of the Yards, Austin, McKinley Park, Englewood, the Loop and Hyde Park.