More than 290 city employees earned more than $100,000 in overtime alone, on top of their salaries; Of those city employees, nearly 69 percent are members of the Chicago Police Department. The Chicago Police Department spent more than two and a half times the $100 million earmarked for police overtime by the Chicago City Council as part of the city’s 2024 budget.
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.