“You can sit at a table outdoors, not eat food, and drink. All we’re asking for is to have the same rules that bars with food licenses are adhering to,” one bar owner said. “There seems to be a complete block in the thinking that somehow bars can’t be trusted.”
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.