Usually in instances of serious flooding there are inmates from state correctional facilities helping to stack those sandbags; COVID-19 has changed their procedures. The Illinois River flooding in north central Illinois, while receding, will also have an impact on the state’s partial reopening of state parks.
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.