Jason Bradley’s sad-sack robbery of a Lombard bank with a fake bomb fashioned from grocery store fireworks strapped to his chest may seem like a bad Hollywood script, but it had real-world consequences.
Former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, part of Chicago’s most famous political family, was expected to report to federal prison Monday to begin serving a four-month sentence for lying to banking regulators and filing false income tax returns in a case involving a failed Bridgeport bank, Washington Federal Bank for Savings.