According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Labor, 10 percent of the labor force, or nearly 131,000 people, are unemployed. Prior to the pandemic, Chicago had not seen the unemployment rate this high since 2013. Chicago’s unemployment rate is also higher than the current national rate of 6.2 percent.
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.