According to the Commission on Government Forecasting & Accountability, the casino business in Illinois appears to be mature and then some, with revenue flat to down and gamblers flocking to alternate ways to put down a wager, such as video poker.
That could limit the hundreds of millions of dollars Chicago hopes to eventually reap to help pay old pension bills, even if the casino would serve a relatively untapped market: downtown tourists and conventioneers.
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.