Sometimes you never know which stories are going to break big! Yesterday, I received a phone call from a reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Seems that a resident in suburban Wheeling was ticketed recently after the Tribune ran a story about the resident roasting a whole pig in his backyard. The gentleman in question roasted the pig for a church event.

You can read the story by going to http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-lechon_08_bothfeb08,1,4852170.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

This is one of those incidents that is just baffling. Of all the important issues we talk about at the ACLU of Illinois, who could have imagined that we'd end up on the front page of the Tribune website for suggesting that the village ought to -- at the very least -- know if the pig roast is part of a religious ritual before punishing the gentleman. The story grew so big that lead columnist John Kass even wrote a piece about the incident.

One can never tell abou these things . . .

Ed