Midwest

Baird has hired underwriting specialist Bryan Derdenger to launch a Chicago-based desk

The two firms hope the more formal union will pave the way for an expansion of products and services and the speed by which they go to clients.

Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District will sell $323 million of new money and refunding bonds as it prepares to ask voters for $500 million in new authority.

Nuveen and Preston Hollow Capital trade barbs over PHC's recent sale of university debt

Indianapolis airport is back with a refunding of notes but it is holding plans to refund variable rate debt because it no longer makes economic sense.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city can manage through 2020 and will wait for the 2020 session to resurrect requests.

The state will pool the assets of 650 public safety pension funds outside Chicago into two new funds: one for police and one for firefighters.

The Chicago Civic Federation supports the proposed budget despite worries

After management and physicians from both health systems worked to provide a merger recommendation, the UnityPoint Health board “failed to embrace the vision."

The state sells $268 million of GOs competitively this week while officials weigh refunding opportunities.