The city remains in the midst of a heated 2025 budget debate that looks likely to go down to the wire, with the City Council recently voting downthe mayor's proposed property tax hike and negotiations still underway on how to replace that revenue and close a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall.
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.