The $1.25 million cut will help reduce the overall budget for the 50-member City Council to $21.3 million — though there is no reduction in the number of City Council committees. A new Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights will replace the disbanding Special Legislative Committee on the Census, keeping the number of committees at 19.
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.