Toomin has been involved in some of Cook County’s highest-profile cases, from Jussie Smollett to Jeff Fort. But this year, after a decade presiding over the juvenile courts, the county Democratic Party declined to endorse him, and he faced a groundswell of progressive activists alleging he had not done right by the county’s youths.
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.