Coming in at a time when the city reportedly faces a 2020 budget hole of $740 million or more will be Jeannie Huang Bennett, now CFO at Chicago Public Schools, who will hold the same post with the city. Joining her as budget director will be Susie Park, now deputy chief of the police department’s Bureau of Organizational Development.
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.