“This council is willing to help the residents, but please understand municipal government is not general assistance,” 5th Ward Ald. Gardner, who chairs the city’s finance committee, said Thursday. “At the end of the day, this is not a municipal issue, it’s the county and the state … It’s just not our fault.”
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.