"While Democrats and Republicans were at each other’s throats over the tax and budget issues, they were on the same wavelength about an estimated expenditure of $485,000 for cost-of-living pay raises. House and Senate members each will collect an additional roughly $2,700, far more than taxpayers will receive from the proposed tax freezes, reductions and rebates."
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.