Despite the Government Finance Officers Association recommending against the practice, a growing number of local governments have turned to issuing bonds to fund budgets strained by rising pension payments. Wheaton, Berwyn, Moline and East Moline all recently borrowed to pay for pensions.
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.