The Illinois General Assembly voted for a decade to eliminate annual cost-of-living adjustments for lawmaker salaries after the Great Recession. Now, an Exelon lobbyist representing a former Illinois lawmaker has sued the state to secure a $14.4 million payday for legislators - just before the vote on a ratepayer-funded bailout for Exelon’s nuclear plants.
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.