Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s top lawyer says city may not defend Chicago aldermen if demands on minority participation cause vendor to sue – Chicago Tribune*
Law Department head, Mark Flessner wrote, “Let me reemphasize my concern in another way: There is a significant difference between” asking questions and making suggestions, and “insisting that a proposed ordinance be drastically and fundamentally amended through the imposition of compelled concessions unrelated to that ordinance, as a precondition of committee approval.”
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.