Weekend News Round-Up

By Margaret Lyons in News on Oct 29, 2007 1:30PM

This is the final week for the CTA as we know it, unless state funding kicks in. To highlight the upcoming doomsdsay, the CTA put on a quite a little show.

There's a Wicca school in Rossville, and boy are some close-minded residents not thrilled. Quoth a local youth pastor, "The school closed. This is a popular place for meth. We're like, 'Great, now a witch school.'" Yeah, meth and witches. Totally comparable.

The new president of IIT "isn't looking to turn the school into the University of Wisconsin. But he would like to see a vibrant community sprout near campus."

Want to surf ye olde intarwebs from a rest stop? Keep dreaming. No companies put in bids to provide wifi at Illinois rest stops.

Around 5,000 gathered Saturday for a march to protest the war in Iraq.

At least 13 horses died or were put to sleep this weekend when a semitrailer truck carrying 59 horses flipped over on Saturday. The truck was a double-decker designed to carry pigs and cattle, not horses.

See more photos of the war protest by Matt Ginger