“There is no other state that, when a candidate self-funds or contributes a certain amount to their campaign, all the caps get blown,” said Alisa Kaplan, Executive Director for Reform for Illinois, who authored a report on the best ways to fix the loophole.
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.