“There are only a handful of places with two top-20 cargo airports,” airport consultant Michael Webber told Crain’s. “Chicago is one of them. O’Hare and Rockford coexist really well. [The area] is a rail and trucking hub.
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.