Chemical maker Ineos has laid off 49 workers at its facility near Joliet. The company said it is shutting down a plant that makes a curing agent for epoxy, resins, paints and other products following “a lengthy unplanned shutdown imposed by our utilities’ contractor, combined with significant uncertainty in the market upon restart.”
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.