Comment: This is an op-ed by Streator's City Manager. See the related news piece immediately below regarding the city and Tim Sharpe, an actuary. Streator's combined police and fire pension unfunded liability is about $24 million according to the last DOI report. Population is only 16,000.
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.