Jim Dey: "Vrdolyak was a symbol of days gone by — the ringleader of the decades-old Chicago City Council wars in which he led White aldermen in a ceaseless struggle for political power against Black aldermen led by Mayor Harold Washington...By contrast, Sandoval epitomized the current grubby corruption and dysfunction of state and local government in Illinois."
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.