The son of Patricia (née Daley), a schoolteacher, and Bill Thompson, a real estate developer, following his parents' divorce, Patrick and his siblings moved to Bridgeport with their mother to be closer to her family.[citation needed]
Thompson, who succeeded long-time alderman James Balcer, was elected to office in a runoff election against John Kozlar in April 2015 and sworn in on May 18, 2015.[3] The 11th ward encompasses several neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side, including Bridgeport, where Thompson was raised and currently resides.
On April 29, 2021, Thompson was indicted on federal charges related to the investigation into the collapse of Washington Federal Bank for Savings. He was charged with two counts of making false statements to the FDIC and five counts of filing false income-tax returns.[5] On February 14, 2022, Thompson was convicted on all charges.[6] According to Illinois law, Thompson's federal conviction makes him ineligible to continue serving as the 11th Ward alderman and bans him from running for public office in the future.[7]
On July 6, 2022, Thompson was sentenced to four months in prison for these charges.[8] He began serving his sentence in August 2022 at a medium-security prison in Oxford, Wisconsin.[9] Thompson appealed his case to the US Supreme Court, arguing that his statements were misleading but truthful.[10] In March 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Thompson's statements specifically needed to be false for prosecution, but it remanded the case to the lower courts for that assessment.[11]
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