The Top 10 of '11

A lot happened in in 2011, and the Shorewood Patch was there for all of it.

The Shorewood Patch covered everything, the funny stories and the sad, the shocking and the thought-provoking.

We've had a year of stories and now it's time to look back at the big ones, the events that really mattered to Shorewood. We went through the whole list and came up with these, the top 10, for you to check out all over again.

Bank of Shorewood goes belly-up

The and was taken over by the .

Bears lose it for Mayor Rick

Mayor a pair of rib dinners on the Bears beating the Packers in the NFC Championship game. On the other side of the bet was the mayor of some impostor Shorewood in Wisconsin. Since this Wisconsin mayor's town is so poor and boring, all he could put up was , which we in the real Shorewood . Not that it mattered, since the Bears blew it and lost Mayor Rick his bet.

Brockman bursts onto board

Challenger Steve Brockman went up against three incumbent Shorewood trustees and — Leroy Stahr — to win a seat on the village board.

State police screw-up exposed

The Shorewood Patch exposed the Illinois State Police for mistakenly placing a Joliet man on the sex offender registry and then blaming it on a Shorewood police officer.

Shorewood battles blizzard

The region was belted by a brutal blizzard, but the hardy citizens of Shorewood were tough enough to overcome the elements.

The house that Jack neglected

Neighbors complaining about the owned by state Rep. Jack McGuire's wife, Patsy, raised questions about whether the longtime politician was actually living outside his district for years.

Tase of our lives

Shorewood Patch columnist Erin Gallagher was first on the scene when the Shorewood cops tangled with a Joliet man in a Walgreens restroom. The — and Gallagher was there to capture the entire episode with her camera.

Where's everybody going?

New Lenox, apparently. and split to go work for New Lenox. Longtime in 2011, but he didn't get a job in New Lenox.

Osama bin Laden gets what he deserved

Nearly 10 years after the attacks of Sept. 11, the Navy SEALs killed bin Laden.

Lifetime makes movie based on Joe Hosey's book

Did you hear? They're .