“They want that vibrant downtown, even if it is small, they realize they are in a rural community,” University of Illinois Extension researcher Pam Schallhorn said. “They are not going to have higher expectations, they just want some of the things they had when they were in a larger city.”
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.