The new Megasites Investment Program will use money from the Rebuild Illinois capital improvement bond issue. It will offer grants of up to $5 million for costs typically incurred early in a project, such as site acquisition and cleanup, and road and utility improvements. Sites that could be eligible for the grants include 415-acre lakefront site of the U.S. Steel South Works plant and the 232-acre former Allstate headquarters in Glenview.
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.