For Holly Woodruff with the Illinois Nurses Association, the delays have long-term effects on an already stretched thin medical industry. "It's hard to keep the good people that we are educating here in the state of Illinois in the state," she said, "if they can get a license in Missouri within hours, or days, and they're waiting months and months and months here."
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.