“I will not be enforcing any of it unless there is a court order issued,” Douglas County Sheriff Joshua Blackwell said, “nor will I be requiring my employees to wear facemasks unless they are explicitly dealing with a person that has COVID. Enough is enough. Downstate Illinois doesn’t have the same issues as 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.