Eddie Caumiant, a regional director with AFSCME, who helped coordinate the event in Chester, said the union is also concerned about the impacts of Gov. JB Pritzker’s plan to close Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security men’s prison in Crest Hill, while a replacement facility is built.
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.