Mark Konkol: "Sure, there were silver linings: The Chicago Sky won the WNBA championship. Lollapalooza made a late-summer comeback. The White Sox won the American League Central Division. But all the while, the coronavirus crisis maintained its stranglehold on city life during a most tumultuous year."
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.