“When a community that is Muslim has the largest per capita population in Illinois and has zero representation at the state level… you’re pitting (minority groups) against each other and you’re pitting us against you and that’s now how it works,” said Dilara Sayeed from the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition. “Right now these draft maps aren’t built with us. They are built for us."
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.