The Springfield Airport Authority, a local unit of government that operates the airport with an annual budget of about $5 million – an amount that includes revenue from property taxes – contends the city owes the authority at least $808,000 from sales taxes on aviation fuel sales between July 2004 and November 2019.
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.