"The pandemic exodus from big cities was not a chimera. Urban populations truly did decline, and demand for houses in exurbs and mountain resorts really did skyrocket. Yet the vast majority of the white-collar workers who had clustered in big cities and expensive suburbs before the pandemic stayed put even as they stopped going into the office."
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.