Midwest

Michigan public finance veteran Dale Deis joins top-ranked PFM after nearly 30 years at Municipal Financial Consultants in Michigan.

Standard & Poor’s assigned an A rating and stable outlook to Detroit’s first post-bankruptcy bond sale, set for Aug. 19.

Senate leaders are raising concerns over legislation passed by the House and supported by Gov. Bruce Rauner that halts cost-of-living pay raises for Illinois lawmakers in the current fiscal year.

A $250 million public financing package for a new Milwaukee Bucks basketball arena is headed to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's desk.

"Detroit's a much better credit than it was two years ago," its former emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, told a municipal bond market group.

Chicago officials warned state lawmakers that Gov. Bruce Rauner’s sweeping statewide pension proposal offers Chicago Public Schools only a temporary salve.

Detroit is set to hit the market on August 19 with its first public bond sale since exiting the largest municipal bankruptcy in the U.S.

Cook County, Ill.'s president won't support Gov. Bruce Rauner's pension reforms even though they give the cash-strapped county many of the reforms it wants, because it would also mean supporting the governor's anti-union measures.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants to leave the door open for a possible U.S. Supreme Court appeal after the state's high court voided a state pension system overhaul.

Columbus, Ohio, in the midst of a downtown building boom, heads into market this week for its annual summer borrowing bearing triple-A bond ratings.