A proposed permanent fix from Cook County's Pension Fund board would cost $267 million more than expected and would achieve full funding only a few years earlier, Toni Preckwinkle's CFO says. In draft legislation, the pension fund proposed the county make a $588 million payment in 2022, $650 million in 2023 and $717 million in 2024—about $267 million more than the county was planning on.
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.