Chicago had the sharpest drop in tech employment among major U.S. cities between 2019 and 2021, according to an analysis of federal jobs data by real estate firm CBRE. But some other cities saw gains, including New York, Austin, Dallas and Seattle. Despite the pandemic decline, Chicago has one of the nation’s 10 largest collections of tech workers, according to CBRE. Chicago has the seventh-largest tech workforce at 167,560.
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.