The financing is available through Chicago PACE, or Property Assessed Clean Energy, a program the Illinois General Assembly authorized statewide in 2018. Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration got it started in Chicago and his successor, Lori Lightfoot, has embraced it as an incentive for economic growth that’s energy efficient.
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.