Chicago’s preeminent taxpayer watchdog group said the “complex and highly politicized” surplus process revised by the Johnson administration last year has allowed the creation of TIF districts to “act as a sort of stealth property tax” that bankrolls operating costs at the expense of economically challenged areas TIF districts were created to revitalize.
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.