Financial advisor Nicholas Royer said sports betting is a business for some people and the state saw it as an opportunity to earn from it as well. "What happened is the state realized that 94% of sports gambling is now done online. And so they looked at this as, Oh, it's a revenue that we can create for ourselves now that this is actually happening."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.