The environmental challenges have spiraled into what the group Centreville Citizens for Change says is a crisis, prompting the federal government to step in twice this month and more than two dozen residents of Cahokia Heights to file a federal lawsuit alleging that "decades of government failure to ensure basic sewage and stormwater services ... have created an environmental injustice for this Black community."
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.