Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi's office missed a deadline to get reports to the Illinois Department of Revenue, which is part of the process of finalizing the assessments and the bills. The assessor's office blamed Tyler Technologies, which is under contract to upgrade the county computer system and also send the reports to the state.
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.