In a new report, the park district’s internal investigators say they dug into more than two dozen cases in an ongoing probe that’s prompted six employees to resign, with five other workers also facing discipline. And Deborah Witzburg, City Hall’s inspector general, said her office is investigating whether any of the city’s roughly 30,000 employees have committed similar fraud involving the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
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.