A longtime city official who currently works in the Department of Aviation has been hit with a felony theft charge for allegedly making purchases on credit and then claiming he didn’t receive the items he ordered, police said. George Coleman Jr., deputy commissioner for intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Aviation, has been charged with one count of continuing financial crimes enterprise.
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.