"Every month for the past 25 years, Giertz has produced an economic flash index derived from receipts from sales, personal-income and corporate-income taxes in the state. Viewing that information in its totality provides valuable information about the strength — or weakness — of the economy...Giertz won’t be publishing his flash index this month."
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.