Midwest

The two attorneys who joined Chapman were part of the team who worked on CommonSpirit's massive financing in 2019.

With cyberattacks on the rise, issuers have had to keep fortifying their defenses against criminals targeting the public sector. 

Since war broke out on Oct. 7 between Israel and Hamas, over $1.64 billion of Israel bonds have been sold to more than 35 U.S. states, counties, cities and municipalities.

Voters in the Milwaukee Public Schools District passed a referendum Tuesday that would raise property taxes to fund $252 million of additional spending.

This is the second wastewater deal since the city received an upgrade in April 2023.

"What we saw in 2023 was a large surge of issuers coming back into the single-family bond market," said Kurt van Kuller of Sit Investment Associates.

The bankruptcy of Iowa City's Mercy Hospital is closer to an end with the resolution of a dispute between unsecured creditors and the trustee and bondholder.

The loan is part of an Inflation Reduction Act program that finances the restart of renewable energy projects that have ceased operations.

The bonds refunded of two earlier series of student fee bonds: the taxable Series Z-2 Build America Bonds, and the tax-exempt Series BB-1 bonds.

The University of Chicago's Harris School Policy Innovation Challenge is a "Shark Tank"-style competition in which eight teams took on Chicago's pension problem.