"This is local farmland that the residents don’t want to see sold off, leased off to foreign entities,” said Will County Board member Katie Deane Schlotteman. “I am not overwhelmingly against solar. I just think there are places for it that would be better suited than our farmland. I don’t see why we aren’t putting more of them [panels] on warehouses or parking lots.”
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.