Mark Grant, Illinois state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, said that Illinois small businesses don’t have a lot of faith in their state’s current economic and political environment right now. "....(L)et’s just go back two weeks ago when the governor was trying to pass a decoupling bill in the wee hours of the night in the Legislature that would have cost small businesses anywhere from $500 million up to a billion dollars."
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.