"Downtown Chicago will come back. There’s enough money and politics to drive a return to at least a version of itself, and we journalists will talk gushingly about renewal, and some of us will avoid mentioning all those moving out.But what of 7 5th and Stony, the people who can’t run off to their lake house? What of people who don’t benefit from downtown glitz and media leverage?"
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.