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

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 a ...

In contrast, Trump has pushed presidential bounds and was a profligate spender in his first term. Another difference: ...

Darrow was also a prominent defender of labor unions, representing union leader Eugene Debs during the 1894 Pullman strike, when the Pullman Co.’s workers were striking for higher wages.

The 1892 Homestead Strike at Carnegie Steel escalated into a bloody battle between striking steelworkers and armed Pinkerton detectives, while the 1894 Pullman Strike, led by the American Railway ...

The 1892 Homestead Strike at Carnegie Steel escalated into a bloody battle between striking steelworkers and armed Pinkerton detectives, while the 1894 Pullman Strike, led by the American Railway ...

“You had events such as the Homestead Strike and the Pullman Strike,” she said. The Homestead Strike of 1892 pitted striking steel mill workers against private security guards and the ...

The legacy and impact of George Pullman and the Pullman Porters are featured in murals displayed along the Kennedy Expressway.

Pullman himself refused to meet with workers and ordered them fired — leading to a strike that ended up paralyzing most railroads west of Detroit until it ended violently with the intervention ...

Find out more about the latest developments in the University of Idaho murders, including suspect Bryan Kohberger's latest bid to strike the death penalty.