Hours after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a package that will send $1.8 billion to Chicago, Lightfoot warned Chicago aldermen to keep their wish lists in their back pockets, because the money will have strings attached. “My expectation is that the money is gonna come ... through specific grants that have specific requirements on how the money can be spent."
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.