But when Snelling begins his first departmental budget defense in the Budget Committee on Tuesday, members of the City Council will not know the exact dollar amount needed to cover CPD personnel in 2024. That's because Johnson’s tentative deal with the city’s largest police union includes pay increases in 2024 beyond what Johnson's $16.6 billion budget proposal accounts for.
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.