Kansas City Does First Deal With All-Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Firms
March 11, 2010 CHICAGO — Kansas City, Mo., will enter the market on Tuesday with a $43 million new-money and refunding general...

Illinois’ Quinn Floats $52 Billion Budget
March 10, 2010 CHICAGO — Facing a $13 billion deficit, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn yesterday unveiled a $52 billion fiscal 2011 budget that...

Quinn Budget for Illinois to Include $4.7B of Strategic Borrowing
March 9, 2010 CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn Wednesday will unveil a proposed fiscal 2011 budget that cuts spending and calls for...

Illinois Financings Advance
March 9, 2010 CHICAGO — The Illinois Finance Authority yesterday advanced more than $800 million of new-money and refunding debt...

Revenue Underwhelms
March 9, 2010 Missouri has collected 12.7% less in revenue than originally expected so far this fiscal year, officials said last week.

S&P’s Slew of Upgrades
March 9, 2010 Standard & Poor’s raised 59 school districts and municipalities in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,...

The Fall of Libertyville
March 9, 2010 Moody’s Investors Service dropped Libertyville’s general obligation rating two notches to Aa3 and affirmed its...

Brady Wins GOP Slot
March 9, 2010 The Illinois Board of Elections formally named state Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, the victor of last month’s...

Chicago-Area Pension Plan Ratios Get Worse
March 8, 2010 CHICAGO — The funded ratios of 10 Chicago-area government pension plans further deteriorated in fiscal 2008, driving...

Ascension Set to Sell $670M
March 5, 2010 CHICAGO — St. Louis-based Ascension Health on Wednesday launches the first piece of its $1.34 billion new-money and...