The charges are related to an earlier lawsuit. Tri-State Disposal Inc., a waste management company in Riverdale, alleged that the mayor gave preferential treatment to a competing recycling business at the expense of Tri-State. Mayor Lawrence Jackson was deposed in the suit but allegedly attempted to conceal his relationship with the recycling company's owner.
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.