The $156.2 million spent between December 2022 and January of this year includes some money from the state, money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and money from the city. But it does not appear to include how much the city has spent within its own agencies – such as the Department of Streets and Sanitation, or the Chicago Public Schools to educate school-aged new arrivals.
Pension crisis? What pension crisis? We’ve got so much money we can throw away hundreds of millions. Plus how are we supposed to fill the pockets or friends and relatives who will slide envelopes stuffed with cash to us politicians
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.
Pension crisis? What pension crisis? We’ve got so much money we can throw away hundreds of millions. Plus how are we supposed to fill the pockets or friends and relatives who will slide envelopes stuffed with cash to us politicians