Doctors and leaders at hospitals around Chicago say they were already waiting to see if COVID-19 cases would start to climb on the heels of summer as people tired of staying at home started to venture out. Now doctors are factoring in people huddled close together at protests, wearing masks or not.
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.