The SBA’s regional administrator for the Great Lakes states, including Illinois, said Monday, “Could we have done a better job? Yeah. But the goal of the program was to get the money out as fast as possible — save as many businesses and jobs as fast as possible. We were flying the plane and building it at the same time."
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.