The budget frustrated Ted Dabrowski, president of financial watchdog Wirepoints.com. "This is by far the most irresponsible budget ever passed by an Illinois legislature," Dabrowski said in June. "It spends a record amount of money in the middle of one of the worst recessions ever... In all, lawmakers have run up a deficit of over $6 billion and they’re counting on the federal government to bail out the state."
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.