“She brought accountability and transparency to municipal finance in a way that is so critically important in this moment,” said Jennie Huang-Bennett, Chicago’s chief financial officer under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. “And between the passing of Laurence Msall and Yvette, it’s an enormous hole that we have to fill.”
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.