One of the many failures of the administration of Gov. Bruce Rauner was his inability to follow up on promises he made during his campaign and in the first months after inauguration. The man who was going to “shake up Springfield” could barely shake up his administration. One example: government consolidation.
Chicago tried to dig its way out of urban flooding decades before climate change made it a national crisis. Did the city, and its imitators, pick the wrong solution?