Chicago City Hall's employment blacklist is 29 pages long. Former Alds. Isaac Carothers (29th) and Arenda Troutman (20th), who went to jail on federal corruption and bribery charges, respectively, are the only former elected officials banned from getting city jobs.
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.