Illinois experienced a previous outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in a state-operated facility in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, the Illinois Veterans’ Home at Quincy faced deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks, killing 13 residents.
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.