How Democrats now go about carving up the state’s congressional boundaries is a high-stakes matter that could influence whether the party retains control of the U.S. House during mid-term elections next year. Those gains could help offset potentially new Republican seats in the Sun Belt and other GOP-friendly states that saw population gains this census cycle.
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.