Meanwhile in Chicago:

..."With police and Secret Service blocking each side of the Drake, the majority of protesters gathered across the street on the southeast corner of Oak and Michigan avenues. Another 25 protesters assembled kitty-corner, raising signs urging passing motorists to honk.

Police said there were no arrests at the protest.

Munster resident Nick Egnatz, a leader of the Northwest Indiana Coalition Against the Iraq War, was joined by about seven other residents of the region wearing shirts or carrying signs proclaiming "Out of Iraq."

Egnatz, 60, an Air Force veteran who also represents Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, said protesters would have targeted the museum if they had known Bush was addressing the media there.

"Obviously the press conference was scheduled so we could not mobilize the protest," he said. "I've been told Bush is speaking on the second floor (of the Drake), so he should be able to hear us yelling and shouting."

Highland resident John Lesiowski, whose daughter, Nadine, 26, is serving her third tour of Army duty in Iraq, said "lies" Bush told about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are enough to impeach him.

"I don't like the direction he's taking the country," Lesiowski said. "He ignores the Constitution and is so righteous because he talks to God."

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