Iraq war protest held on campus

URBANA – Local anti-war activists marked America's fifth year in Iraq on Thursday with speeches on the Quad, a march through Campustown and a "die-in."

About 35 marchers gathered on Anniversary Plaza south of the Illini Union just before noon, strode past the Alma Mater to Green Street, turned west to Fifth Street and came back on John, then took a turn around the University of Illinois quadrangle.

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