Bally’s is facing skepticism in Chicago and elsewhere. While it’s grown dramatically through acquisitions recently, the company has never built a project of this scale — a one-million-square-foot casino to be flanked by a hotel, restaurants, entertainment center and exhibit space along the Chicago River. Some aldermen in the third-largest US city have questioned the company’s financial resources and experience to manage such a development.
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.