CTU’s foundation is listed as the owner of a West Side property worth $6.6 million, making the teachers union an example of its own distortion. The building is the Chicago Teachers Union Center, with the union’s headquarters, its foundation and leased space in a former valve factory. Under Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan, purchasing CTU’s property would cost an extra $120,102.
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.