"In a city that depends heavily on local taxation to fund schools, pensions, parks, public safety, and infrastructure, the tax base is pulled in competing directions. Demands are rising on one side while property values are shifting on the other. The result is a structure that too often places the greatest strain on those least equipped to absorb or contest it."
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.