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 ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached ... friends scattered his ashes over a bridge in Chicago's Jackson Park.

The event to honor Darrow’s memory has been held every March 13 at the bridge since 1957, almost 20 years after Darrow’s death. Typically, a wreath is thrown into the Jackson Park Lagoon that ...