Midwest

After 12 years in Columbus, Megan Kilgore is “moving across the table,” taking a job at the firm, Umbaugh, that is the city’s financial advisor.

Cincinnati is nearing a historic agreement to remedy its long-standing pension shortfall that sparked downgrades and years of court battles with retirees and unions.

Chicago-based investment firm David A. Noyes & Company has hired former Indiana public finance director Mark Moore as part of an expansion of the firm’s Indiana investment banking team.

Chicago is promoting O’Hare International Airport’s recent growth spurt, improved credit, and conservative debt portfolio as it preps a $2 billion issue that will mark the city’s largest deal ever.

St. Louis’ public finance community will join with the friends and family of Ivy D. Neyland-Pinkston in a celebration of life gathering Saturday to honor the longtime deputy comptroller for finance and development.

Bond insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. will lay out a restructuring plan next week for holders of $160 million of defaulted debt issued by the Chicago suburb of Lombard for its still struggling hotel and conference center.

Standard & Poor’s upgraded Illinois-based Anderson Hospital two notches citing multi-year operating improvements.

Chapman and Cutler LLP said it was mourning the loss of retired partner Ronald E. Rokosz, described as a “tour de force” who was instrumental in the development of credit enhancement, liquidity facilities and other bank products used in the public finance sector.

The Illinois budget stalemate has left Chicago on the hook to cover monthly payments to the trustee on its motor fuel tax bonds because state transfers are trapped without a fiscal 2016 budget.

Milwaukee takes bids Thursday on $180 million of revenue anticipation notes to meet the cash flow needs of the city’s public school district as it awaits tax and aid payments.