Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told NPR last month that she'd been in regular contact with the governors of Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio: "We know that COVID-19 doesn't respect party lines and it doesn't respect state lines, and that's why we've got to share our best information and move strategically together whenever possible." Now, many of those national and regional plans seem to have evaporated.
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.