Closing arguments are expected to begin Monday in the federal tax trial of Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, and the presiding judge has said jurors could expect to have the case in their hands later that day.
That’s when it will be time for the panel of four men and eight women — teachers, an emergency medical technician, sales associates and others — to decide the fate of a sitting alderperson and a member of Chicago’s most storied political family.
