Moody's raised the city's issuer and general obligation bond rating to Baa3 from Ba1, removing the junk label that has tarnished the city's GOs since May 2015 after an Illinois Supreme Court ruling tossing out state pension cuts signaled that the city's pension overhaul likely faced the same fate.
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.