Now that Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson has been convicted of federal tax charges, it falls to Mayor Lori Lightfoot to name someone to succeed him in the Daley family’s
Patrick Daley Thompson’s fellow Council members call him an unassuming man of his word lacking the arrogance they might have expected from a scion of Chicago’s most famous and once, all-powerful political family.
Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson (11th) is the first former or sitting Chicago alderperson to be convicted since former Ald. Ricardo Muñoz (22nd) pleaded guilty last September and the 37th since Fred Hubbard (2nd) in 1973. It averages out to a Council member convicted every 16 months.