House Bill 1293 urges the state’s five retirement systems to divest their holdings in companies domiciled in either of those countries as well as their sovereign debt, and prohibits them from making new investments there. Said state Rep. Lindsey LaPointe, “We in Illinois have to do everything we can … to make sure we're doing our part to call out Russia and to end this war.”
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.