Top Stories of 2011: Therapy Dogs Honored for Comforting Hospital Patients

This week we’ll look back at some of the most-read stories published on Des Plaines Patch in 2011. Each day we’ll add to this list of the top 10 stories.

Read about an event celebrating the work therapy dog owners and their canine counterparts are doing at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, 1775 Dempster St. in Park Ridge, at and other places.

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In one heart-wrenching story shared by a therapy dog owner at the event, a boy with leukemia wanted to die holding a dog. .

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