CBS2 also examined how Chicago specifically has been impacted. 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.
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.