The positions put Hairston, vice chair of the Finance Committee who has been elected to City Council six times and is the fourth-most-senior alderman, at odds with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. "What I will say is that we will be looking to see where cuts can be made. It does not make sense to have an area of the department that is not producing results."
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.