"Caught in the act by Lausch’s expansive corruption probe, ComEd now must pay a $200 million fine...Large as those figures may sound, they smell small...A utility that last year reported $700 million in operating income doesn’t obscenely break the law over a scheme that nets it, on average, only about $15 million a year. That extra 2% in income would not be worth the risk."
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.