"Chinatown was an unlikely neighborhood for the land bank to step in. The agency was created to help get vacant, blighted and tax-delinquent properties in downtrodden neighborhoods back in use, paying taxes. But the plaza and the corridors connecting them through the two-story mall weren’t abandoned. And Chinatown was hardly blighted."
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.