"When asked about budget shortfalls in the current state budget and the need to revise next year’s proposed budget, which Gov. J.B. Pritzker advanced in February, the governor has acknowledged deep holes. But he offers no solutions other than waiting for money from the feds — from federal taxpayers. And there you have it, one of many deeply embedded problems in state government."
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.