Chief Operating Officer Paul Goodrich allegedly used his position in the Lightfoot administration to secretly get his son a paid internship with a city contractor, and then tried to get that contractor nearly $10 million more in payments from taxpayers that the company may not have been entitled to. EKI-Digital has remained a city contractor under Johnson, and is run by Chicago businessman Robert Blackwell Jr., who’s been a friend and campaign contributor to former President Barack Obama.
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.
What a surprise!