CDPH is the city’s main environmental regulator, granting operating permits, conducting inspections, and issuing citations for environmental ordinance violations. CDPH Commissioner Dr. Olusimbo Ige says the department only had three inspectors - and that most inspections happened in high-income areas of the city because most of the complaints they received were from those areas.
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.