Two former Democratic state senators are asking a Cook County judge to order Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza to pay back wages they and other lawmakers gave up when legislators voted repeatedly over a decade to freeze their salaries. The request from Michael Noland of Elgin and James Clayborne of Belleville was filed Wednesday in a lawsuit the former lawmakers brought against Mendoza, a fellow Democrat.
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.