Among the highlights is discussion of how, early in the pandemic, Lightfoot’s City Hall team last summer considered defying Gov. Pritzker’s indoor dining ban. Top staff members even scheduled a meeting to discuss how such a move would play out. Lightfoot and Pritzker repeatedly clashed in private on COVID-19 mitigation measures.
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.