Nearly 3,000 parents in the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago have signed petitions seeking an end to COVID mask mandates in schools. The archdiocese rejects the effort, saying that COVID cases, while falling, are still too high to follow other dioceses in changing course.
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.