In Chicago, Kieran Aherne, regional manager at an Irish pub called Fado, hasn’t seen an impact from the virus yet. The city’s parade on Saturday is the biggest revenue generator of the year. In the past, it’s meant more than $100,000 in a weekend and then another bounce comes on actual St. Patrick’s Day.
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.