"Affordable housing advocates have gone so far as to describe aldermanic prerogative as a 'tool of the new Jim Crow.' A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development investigation gave that criticism more weight: The nearly five-year civil rights probe found that Chicago had turned alderpersons into mini-mayors of each ward."
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.