By dancing in public, marchers made people nearby residents see them “as who we are, seeing that there’s no violence around us,” 12-year-old Garrick Hildebrand said. He is “tired of seeing all these kids dying out here.” Both adults and his fellow youth need to know “we matter.”
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.