Like other judicial circuits in the U.S., much of the in-person legal work in McLean County was reduced to a handful of hearings in felony cases starting in March 2020, as COVID-19 rules were put in place. The record number of murder trials put the state’s resources to the test.
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.