The Rebuild Illinois Act, which Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed in 2018 to improve state infrastructure, proposes $23 billion in spending on road repairs alone. The total budget of $41 billion will be partly funded by taxes on gas and vehicle registration.
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.