The Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing and Loyola University Chicago estimated there could have been as many as 21,000 evictions filed in January if not for the moratorium. That would have been more eviction cases in one month than the number filed, 18,200, in all of 2019 in Chicago.
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.