A stampede in central Bangladesh left 22 women and a child dead early Friday when hundreds of people stormed the home of a businessman for a charity handout during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, police said.
Since hitting a record-low water level two years ago, Lake Michigan has been replenishing at an almost unprecedented rate, rising more than 3 feet since January 2013, according to government agencies.
A Chicago police officer fatally shot a man in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side after the man pointed a gun at the officer late Thursday evening, authorities said.
Chicago will pay expensive taxable rates on the bulk of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's upcoming $1.1 billion bond deal - a costly sign of how much the city has come to rely on long-term debt to cover short-term expenditures.
Spike Lee might be wrapping up filming of his controversial movie "Chi-raq," the moniker given to violence-torn neighborhoods on Chicago's South and West sides, but the debate over whether the city should support the project isn't going away.
