Michael S. Thompson is a beekeeper in Chicago.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Thompson was a contributor to Thing Magazine in the early 1990s.^{[7][better source needed]}

Thompson grew up in Wichita, Kansas^[8] and became a bee-keeper when he was 12 years old, after his parents bought him a beehive.^[9][10] He moved to Chicago in 1968, and began beekeeping there in 1974.^[8] In 1975, he put a beehive on his roof in Chicago and was surprised at the amount of honey his urban beekeeping produced.^[8]

In the summer of 2004, Thompson worked with two other beekeepers to start the Chicago Honey Co-op,^[11] which is dedicated to provide healthy food, passing down bee-keeping knowledge, and employing the formerly incarcerated.^[10][12]

In January 2013, Thompson held his first urban beekeeping class that was open to the public at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.^[13]