Results of the 2020 census show that the change in thinking arises in part from necessity. The nation’s metropolitan areas have become more diverse, forcing their representatives to speak to a more racially mixed constituency. The new data show that seven Black lawmakers now in Congress represent districts that were majority Black in 2010 but no longer are so, including several in and around New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C
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.