PlayIllinois.com writer Joe Boozell says about $507 million was spent on sports bets in May in Illinois. “We think in-person registration, that means people have to go to a sportsbook or a racino to register for an account, that’s probably stunted some growth. That wasn’t the case for about seven straight months during the worst of COVID.”
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.