North Side Ald. Andre Vasquez noted a section of the municipal code stipulates the City Council should meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month unless another date and time is set for the next meeting. For decades, the council has set its regular meetings for just one Wednesday per month. “It’s right there in the code, so let’s do what the code says,” Vasquez said.
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.
Plus a doubling of their expense accounts to deal with the hardship of twice-monthly meetings