Now up for a third term, Assessor Fritz Kaegi has certainly made the system more fair by treating more homeowners equally, but has not necessarily become more accurate, the report said. Compared with sales prices, residential properties “are increasingly under-assessed on average,” it found.
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.