In a news release Friday night, Democrats said they used American Community Survey’s 5-year estimate for 2019, “in addition to robust public input.” They acknowledge “The ACS estimate varies by just 0.3 percent from the state’s official population count released by the U.S. Census Bureau in April.”
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.