“We had the ‘shelter-in-place’ rule, and overnight we had 400 people living here that we could no longer move through the system,” Neli Vazquez-Rowland, the founder of A Safe Haven, said. “We couldn’t get them housing, or even job interviews. We were clearly not at the top of the list in terms of prioritizing resources.”
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.