Although the parking meter lease is the deal aldermen and their constituents love to hate, Clint Krislov, director of IIT Chicago-Kent’s Center for Open Government law clinic, has argued that it “pales by comparison” to the Skyway deal. If investors unload it now for anywhere near the $4 billion they hope to get, it would only rub salt in the wound of Chicago taxpayers.
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.