Nearly 30% of those who tested positive in the last month are between 18 and 29 years old. Those cases are concentrated in the Lincoln Park and New City areas. Arwady suggests restlessness and a perception among youth that they won’t fall severely ill or die from the disease like older Chicagoans has contributed to the rise.
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.