Two Illinois nuclear plants are at risk of closing well before their useful lives are over. If you think you've heard that one before, it's because you have. Exelon lobbied successfully in 2016 for $2.4 billion in state-ordered subsidies over a decade to keep open the company's Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear stations.
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.