Clarence Darrow

Joseph Williams, chairman of The Granite Cos. Inc., would be doing a lot if he completes his plan to build 3,000 units of housing plus 300,000 square feet of retail space and offices and 200,000 square feet of arts, educational and recreational facilities...

American Lightning Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century Howard Blum Crown: 340 pp., $24.95 JUST after 1 a.m. on Oct. 1, 1910, a series of explosions shook downtown Los Angeles. Soon, the fortress-like building that...

1. Weeki Wachee Long before Disney filmed The Little Mermaid, real swimming women with costumed tails were entertaining in the crystal-clear waters here. It can't be beat for Old Florida fun. *Phone: 352-596-2062; Web: weekiwachee .com. Address: 6131...

There is a remarkable photograph on Page 160 of historian Simon Baatz's meticulously researched new book, "For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago." It was taken Saturday, May 31, 1924, just 10 days after Nathan Leopold...

Leopold and Loeb. Indelibly linked, the names are an alliterative invocation of a brutal crime at once random and calculated: on May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two University of Chicago graduate students and scions of wealthy, prominent...

It all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and a dubious law to restrict liberties at home. Add to that scenario vast inequalities in wealth, high Immigration rates, scant regard for...

Democracy's Prisoner Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent Ernest Freeberg Harvard University Press: 380 pp., $29.95 It all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and...

My name is Marge Rogatz. I am the president and CEO of Community Advocates [based in Roslyn Heights], which is an advocacy organization that has been involved, primarily in Nassau County, since 1972, in helping vulnerable populations obtain their...

But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870 304 pages, $27.50 (Published by Ivan R. Dee) Spring training is almost over and a new season of professional baseball is about to commence. It's a fun game to watch now,...

Some residential communities are so trendy their ZIP codes are well known and real estate agents are battle-scarred from bidding wars. Others, not so much. In the Chicago area, there are myriad neighborhoods, subdivisions and suburbs that are great places...

Nobody thinks that anybody will live to be 100..." said Leon Despres, pausing. "Including me." It was a few weeks before the arrival of that milestone, which comes on Feb. 2 and is scheduled to be accompanied by all manner of festivities, including a...

Bobby Franks, 14, was heading home for supper in the South Side neighborhood of Kenwood. But only a block and a half away from his dinner table, little Bobby simply disappeared. The boy had vanished into a car rented under a phony name by two...