Former Mayor Daley’s nephew running for office

The Daley family is not quite done with Chicago politics.

Former Mayor Richard Daley’s nephew, Patrick Daley Thompson, is getting ready to run for a spot on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.

The 42-year-old attorney says he decided he wants to join the nine-member board after learning there’s going to be a vacancy because President Terrence O’Brien is retiring after 34 years.

If joining a board that oversees wastewater treatment in Cook County sounds like a modest goal, working your way up the ranks is part of a Daley family tradition.

Back in 1970 when his father was one of the most powerful mayors in the United States, Richard Daley served as a delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention.