Still, $25 million isn’t much compared to the District’s $154 million wish list of deferred maintenance and new projects. And that’s scaled back from last year’s to-do list. District leaders have said they need to shore up money to contribute more to their employees’ pensions.
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.