Driven up by the loss of nearly half a million square feet of tenants, the office vacancy rate in the Chicago suburbs rose to 26.1 percent as of the end of June, according to data from real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle. That's the highest mark JLL has tracked in its two decades of data and up from 25.5 percent at the end of the first quarter, which itself marked a record high.
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.