“Before we even started the process of working on the levy, we were already sitting in a hole of $1 million that we had to make up or figure out how to handle,” a village trustee said. “The pension contribution, every year it’s becoming more and more of a surprise.”
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.