Woodford County joins 12 other mostly conservative counties around the state that have passed similar or nearly identical resolutions in recent months. Last September, the governor granted $41.5 million to communities willing to welcome asylum seekers. Urbana was the only one outside the Chicago area to take up the offer.
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.