Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, gave an end-of-year update on her prolific philanthropic efforts, which now total $19.2 billion in donations since 2019, in a blog post in December. Here's how 2024 is stacking up for Chicago — and for Illinois overall.
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.