In August 2017, Jacie Zolna filed a lawsuit accusing the city of sending those tickets to administrative hearing officers when state law required them to go to Traffic Court for one reason: to allow the city to keep the fines to itself instead of sharing 55 percent of the revenue with the county and state.
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.
Chicago has a long record of illegal ticketing practices — maybe a RICO treble damage verdict would put a stop to that