“When we first started thinking about leaving Illinois, we talked to (Illinois) state officials, but all we got was soft rhetoric,” said Andy Gross, CEO of Alliance Steel, which relocated from Illinois to Indiana. “They had no bullets in their gun. There was nobody aggressively trying to keep us in Illinois. It was just soft talk.”
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.