A band of thieves who swiped $3.8 million during at least 15 armored truck and ATM heists across Chicago’s south suburbs was undone by a series of hapless mistakes — including crashing a car, failing to discover a tracking device in a bag of money and keeping a wrapper from a stolen roll of quarters, the FBI revealed in a court filing unsealed last week.
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.