“We’re going to do our best to get property tax bills out on time,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said Tuesday. That should be sometime in July, and a failure to collect those taxes in a timely manner will place further strain on the county’s finances, she added, a strain it may be impossible to accept.
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.
Revenue, revenue, revenue. Congrats, Toni. You and your ilk have turned Illinois into the NJ of the midwest.