Patrick Daley Thompson’s City Council colleagues were saddened by his conviction on Monday — and not simply because it is another sorry chapter in the City Council’s sordid history of corruption.
His seatmates truly like and admire Thompson, in part because he is an unassuming, “100% South-Side,” man of his word without the arrogance they might have expected from a scion of Chicago’s most famous — and once, all-powerful — political family.
