One resident explained, "When industry moves away, some young people leave to look for work; those who graduate from universities find jobs in large cities; and those who stay don’t have enough children to keep the schools filled. More fundamentally, people are just fed up with Illinois’ high taxes, crime, and incompetent government. Anyone who can get up and go, gets ups and goes."
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.