Rob Karr, of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, notes that this type of theft is not exclusive to high-end retailers. “We’re never going to get people returning to the brick and mortar. We’re never going to get to the vitality, particularly the city of Chicago, when we have these kind of safety concerns around our city because it’s feeding other crime."
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.