In the Senate, sponsoring Sen. Robert Peters, a Chicago Democrat, recalled that Atticus Finch, the color-blind defense attorney in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, said that courage is knowing "you're licked before you begin ... but you see it through." Peters continued, "We're seeing it through no matter what. Illinois on Jan. 1, 2023, will make history — civil rights history."
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.