Good morning, Chicago. The Chicago Police Department’s bolstered training in the execution of search warrants will soon mean an increase in residential searches by CPD officers, Superintendent Larry S...
03.11.2026 Chicagotribune.com
When was the last time you wrote a letter? Not a text. Not a tweet. But a real, ink on paper letter? It’s becoming a vanishing art. But a pack of letters written between 1924 and 1928 form the foundat...
03.11.2026 Chicagotribune.com
Arena Stage’s deep-set, in-the-round Fichandler auditorium would seem a colosseum well-suited for a dramatic courtroom duel grounded in sturdy, in-your-face debate. On the other hand, that beautiful b...
03.10.2026 Metroweekly.com
The courtroom drama is a genre all its own and Inherit the Wind is a quintessential courtroom drama. The trouble with Arena Stage’s production begins the moment audience members discover there is no c...
03.13.2026 Washingtoncitypaper.com
Clarence Darrow (1853-1938) was one of the greatest litigators of his age, a modern Daniel Webster, for it was Webster who made speeches of reasoning, pathos and sarcasm that enforced the principles of shared national identity, bound by constitutional law, over the nullification, secession and selective enslavement of private interests. Webster was also a great advocate against censorship, calling free speech “the great moral renovator of society and government. ” Webster lived from 1782 to 1853...
03.08.2026 Santacruzsentinel.com