ComEd, according to the staff report, has cooperated in supplying names, dates and compensation for people with Madigan ties who were employed by the company; ComEd also supplied information about the hiring process. Yet ComEd, according to a footnote in the report, stood by its position that its rates had been “just and reasonable” and did not over-collect.
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.