Next year, Danville residents and businesses may absorb major tax and fee increases if aldermen go for a plan that begins chipping away at the city's massive pension debt, which has ballooned to more than $100 million. The plan includes a 10 percent property-tax increase, plus a jump in the monthly public-safety fee — from $96 a year to $267 for residents.
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.