Illinois legislators are raising concerns over a $500,000 budget item for Lincoln College, a private school that shut down in 2022. The earmark, added in a 2018 capital bill by then-state Sen. Bill Brady was never funded but continues to appear in the budget each year because it’s still written into state law.
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.