• When Gov. Bruce Rauner declared this week, “I’m nobody that nobody sent," he fell back on an old Chicagoese term dubbing himself an outsider. Mark Konkol found the man who originated that phrase, Abner Mikva. Mikva, 85, recalled how one sentence from a Machine boss launched his political career in the 1940s.
• Last year, DNAinfo Chicago talked to the man who unearthed and restored 70-some-year-old film about Chicago. The color footage, produced by the Chicago Board of Education with help from United Airlines for the aerial shots, includes glimpses of the city's beaches, various universities, shopping districts, manufacturing plants and more. Check out video of a smaller, slower, city - that's just as beautiful as today.
• Sometimes crime stories make you shake your head. This week brought a few of those, as our Erica Demarest reports:
• Prosecutors laid out how a man went on a robbery spree of fast-food joints, hitting up a McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts and White Castle before being thwarted trying to rob a Subway.
• In Calumet Heights, a delivery driver helped police catch two men who allegedly robbed him last month. They called him from they same phone used in the December incident, prosecutors said. The men ordered $56 of beef sandwiches and pop.
• A man who works at a Lakeview Jewel allegedly robbed a co-worker of cash and jewelry on the West Side. He showed up to work the next day, where he was arrested after being identified by his co-worker.
• To celebrate Martin Luther King Day Monday, the Old Town School of Folk Music will host a sing-along.
Old Town School staff and faculty will lead those gathered in songs of peace and justice, and will also share King's words of inspiration.
Event organizers encourage people to "bring your instrument, your voice, or your ears and heart."
• Read that lease carefully: A woman who was renting a West Ridge home was evicted after a Realtor discovered her living there. The woman was apparently renting the home from a man who claimed he owned it.
“I feel bad for her, I don’t know what the situation is, honestly,” said Helen Oliveri, the Realtor trying to sell the home. “I know that I have it for sale. It’s vacant. We check on it every week, and we got a phone call about someone moving into the property. The police were inevitably called, and unfortunately, they told her if she didn’t move out, she was criminally trespassing.”
