Ald. Leslie Hairston wants to know why Mayor Lightfoot has created a series of highly-paid new jobs in the mayor's office, suggesting some of these posts seem to have exactly the same policy-making portfolio as department heads also appointed by Lightfoot. "If we're cutting in every other area, we need to cut here too."
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.
I can imagine the question! Where’s mine?