Comment: Taxpayers helped fund it. According to Curbed Chicago, incentives included $6.4 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and $1.5 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits expected to generate $15.2 million in equity. The City of Chicago also sold two city-owned lots for $1 each to support the development.
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.