Expenditures include more than $11 million to staff the alternate care facility at McCormick Place, where only 38 patients were transferred, and $1.3 million to rent more than 400 rooms at two hotels in Springfield for first responders, healthcare workers and COVID-19 patients who required isolation. But not a single person ever stayed at either property.
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.