iPhone fans pile into Apple store feeling ‘like LeBron James’

Clapping, cheering Apple store employees on Friday morning welcomed customers, some of who waited in line for days to get an iPhone 5 as as soon as the Michigan Avenue store opened. “I felt like Lebron James and Kobe Bryant,” said Julian Diggs, the first customer in the door.

• Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in income tax in 2011, rate of 14.1%

  Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, paid $1.94 million in federal taxes on last year’s income of $13.7 million, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, his campaign said Friday. That’s slightly above the 13.9 percent rate the couple paid in 2010. Most of the 2011 income was from investments.

• What Emanuel’s Israeli-U.S. diplomacy means for Obama

  LYNN SWEET: Mayor Rahm Emanuel met Thursday with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak — who delivered a message, I’m told, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not attempting to interfere in the U.S. presidential election to benefit Mitt Romney.

• Man fatally shot in Humboldt Park; police car hit in chase

  A man was fatally shot in a gangway near his home late Thursday night in Humboldt Park, and a vehicle suspected in the shooting later hit a police car after a chase.