Investors want comprehensive plans that set up the city for more revenue and lower costs going forward. Chicago’s fiscal woes don’t end in 2020. The city is struggling with $30 billion of unfunded pension liabilities. And its required payments to the cash-strapped retirement system ramp up this year and keep climbing, topping $2 billion in 2022, city documents show.
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.