Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas and entrepreneur Joe Holberg already have announced plans to run for mayor. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Comptroller Susana Mendoza are considered potential challengers, too.
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.
Things must be bad in a Democrat minority congress if a Democrat with a “seat for life” is willing to give it up to run for mayor of Chicago.