Lightfoot took office on a mission to take down the machine. When it comes to the city’s finances, the biggest blockade to investments that will improve upward mobility for residents is the pension problem. She can best lead a new Chicago if she helps stop this problem from grinding through city revenues.
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.