The Amazon fulfillment center — the last stop before delivery for online orders — is expected to employ between 250 and 500 people and open in 2022. Neither the city nor the county offered incentives, and the site doesn't fall within a tax-increment financing district or an enterprise zone.
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.