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Glenview Year in Review: 2011's Top Stories

We've crunched the numbers, here are Glenview Patch's 11 most popular stories for 2011.

Happy almost New Year, Glenview! It’s been quite the year. From an to a Glenview and an inside look at local , our top 11 stories of 2011 run the gamut.

We’ve published thousands of stories since the site launched in September 2010. Here, a look back at this year’s most popular pieces.

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Police say Suk Oh, 46, entered the condo of Dong (Donna) H. Yu, 42, a waitress employed at Oh's restaurant—Glenview’s —and fatally shot her, before turning the gun on himself in September.

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In late March, a carjacking and kidnapping ended in an early morning police chase that left one man dead and a woman injured. The surviving offender was charged April 13.

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Patch takes an inside look at Glenview’s low-income residents including those at mobile home park

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In honor of 9/11’s 10th anniversary, Glenview resident and Muslim-American K. Rizwan Kadir shared his reflections. Kadir is also President of Pakistan Club at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and serves on the board of several Islamic organizations in the U.S.

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A Niles man must register as lifetime sex offender after a February 2011 evening with a minor in a Glenview motel room.

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A routine eviction in Glenview back in July , resulting in several arrests by the Cook County Sheriff’s department. CSO seized 5000 grams of marijuana and five loaded, unlicensed guns.

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Helicopters, police dogs and a police SWAT team converged on the Villas Salceda subdivision near Glenview on an early September afternoon to coax an armed man out of his home after he got into a fight with his parents. The three-hour stand-off required 74 police and ended peacefully as police took the 51-year old Northbrook man into custody.

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Needs improvement' designations at three point out cracks in No Child Left Behind. As this investigative feature explores, at least 80 percent of U.S. public schools will be labeled failing under No Child Left Behind this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced this summer. With statistics so high, many researchers say the term 'failing' is rendered meaningless. Patch takes a closer look.

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The world of was turned upside down this past year after he was caught running naked in his condo building. But he is thankful this holiday season despite his personal tumult, he said. Delatorre contacted Patch recently to share his side of the story.

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When Pacaccio was brutally murdered in 1993, it devastated the community. She was 18 years old. The one-time cold case was reignited following a string of vicious crimes in California when DNA evidence surfaced linking Gargiulo to a 2008 Santa Monica rape. In addition to the Pacaccio charges, in California.

The announcement followed a segment in May on the by 48 Hours Mystery and a , which Patch brought to the attention of the State's Attorney's Office. 

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Francisco Moran, 18, will spend the next two decades in prison, a Cook County judge ruled in early November 2011. Moran pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges dating back to the November 2009 death of 16-year-old Maine East student Edgardo De La Torre.

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