Legislative Republicans denounced Democrats for dropping the latest version of the judicial map late Thursday night and scheduling new redistricting committee hearings an hour before those committees were held at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Said Rep. Ryan Spain, a member of the House Redistricting Committee, “In the state of Illinois, not only do we allow politicians to pick their voters, but through this bill, we're going to let judges do it too."
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.