Jim Dey: “The county board just spent $40 million on the jail and purchasing a new county government building,” State Rep. Carol Ammons said. “Their mismanagement of one-time American Rescue Plan Act funding from the federal government is proof of their priorities.”
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.