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Standard & Poor's lowered by two levels its rating on LaSalle, Illinois’ general obligation rating to reflect it revised rating criteria and its negative fund balance.

A Missouri state audit found the Grandview School District in Missouri misused some proceeds from some of its $22 million worth of borrowing in recent years.

McGuire Woods LLP has hired Kay McNab, a municipal finance and bank lending legal specialist, to bolster its Midwestern public finance and banking businesses.

Chicago is readying about $700 million of water and wastewater revenue bonds for sale, pressing with investors the credits' mostly double-A level ratings that's distinct from its battered general obligation standing.

Bruce Cole, the head of Mamtek US, the firm that triggered a $39 million municipal bond default on debt sold for a Missouri sucralose plant, will go to prison as part of a plea deal.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon wants an economic injury disaster declaration for Ferguson to secure low-interest loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration to aid businesses hurt by the large protests that followed a fatal police shooting of an unarmed teen.

The trustee on $8.5 million of revenue bonds issued to finance a wastewater treatment facility to support a now bankrupt meat processing company in a Chicago suburb has struck a deal to sell the bond-financed assets at a steep discount to the company that's taken over the bankrupt firm.

The Michigan Finance Authority said it received orders from 30 firms on its $108 million state aid revenue note sale on behalf of Detroit Public Schools that saw a sharp drop from last year in interest rate penalties imposed on the struggling district.

The judge overseeing Detroit's bankruptcy chastised bond insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc. for attacking federal mediators as biased and ordered the insurer to defend why it shouldn't face sanctions.

Moody's Investors Service slapped Burbank, Illinois with a downgrade and assigned a negative outlook to its A1 rating due to ongoing operating deficits and mounting pension woes.

Two Illinois based not-for-profit healthcare systems -- Northwestern Memorial Healthcare and Cadence Health – said they plan to complete their merger on Sept. 1.

Detroit has finalized an agreement with Barclays Capital Inc. for up to $275 million in financing to exit Chapter 9 bankruptcy as the city gears up for a trial next week on its confirmation plan.

Facing pressure to approve a new tribal casino in southeastern Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker said his administration is proceeding cautiously in its ongoing review over concerns that the state could lose $100 million in payments from nearby tribal casinos.

Detroit said it stands behind the proposed $815 million 'grand bargain" as the best solution to aid pensioners and protect the city art museum's collection, rejecting an offer from Art Capital Group for a $4 billion loan with the art collection serving as collateral.

The judge in charge of mediation in the Detroit bankruptcy case ordered a new round of talks between the city and holders and insurers of $1.4 billion of pension certificates of participation.

The trustee on $20 million of unrated bonds issued for the bankrupt Leafs Hockey Club in suburban Chicago hopes to reach a debt restructuring deal with the club by early October but the two sides remain at loggerheads over the club's fiscal prospects.

Standard & Poor's raised Detroit's water and sewer revenue bonds three levels up from junk bond territory ahead of the city's $1.8 billion sale of mostly refunding bonds, offering a more positive assessment than Fitch Ratings or Moody's Investors Service.

Detroit plans to sell $1.8 billion of water and sewer bonds Tuesday through the Michigan Finance Authority in a transaction that allows it to finance the purchase of $1.5 billion of tendered bonds and further its efforts to exit bankruptcy.

Detroit's voluntary tender program of its water and sewer revenue bonds may have provide an "optimal solution" for the market but it still represents a default, Municipal Market Advisors said Monday.

The public agency overseeing construction of a new Minnesota Vikings stadium approved a $49 million increase in the project's budget due to rising construction costs.