"Last week, PlayIllinois estimated that legalizing online casinos in Illinois could net the state an additional $105.6 million in tax revenue annually...Yes, $105 million in additional tax revenue would be a drop in the bucket for an Illinois state pension debt that was nearly $140 billion as of December 2022...Yet, something has to be done to tackle this massive pension problem."
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.