Said Chris Smith, operations director for Corn Belt Ports, “The passage of Rock Island Regional Port District legislation...sends a clear message of the importance of this area to regional and national supply chains...This was the only stretch of inland water in Illinois that has an interstate crossing but not a state recognized port.”
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.