"Johnson’s leadership style is indeed a break from prior Chicago mayors domineering over negotiations that largely ended with their original proposal, plus modest tweaks. And the risk is that the process could devolve into chaos with competing interests fighting for their own priorities and nobody on the fifth floor with the strength to rein it in."
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.