Exhibits

The Murder That Wouldn't Die: Leopold & Loeb in Artifact, Fact, and Fiction

March 3 - EXTENDED through June 30, 2009

The 1924 murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb is an infamous piece of Chicago—and American—history. Contemporaries called it "the Crime of the Century" and it has continued to fascinate writers, film-makers, legal scholars, and their audiences ever since. 
Featured in this exhibit are many of the most critical primary-source documents related to the case, held in Northwestern University Library collections...more