Under the law, the city must create a selection committee to hire a national search firm to find candidates. The committee recommends finalists to the mayor. Although Joe Ferguson put in his notice in July, officials didn’t create the committee until September, and the search has dragged on for months.
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.
They could have stopped after the fourth word in that headline.