Midwest

Fitch Ratings downgraded the Chicago Board of Education’s $6 billion of general obligation debt down to junk Monday.

The Milwaukee comptroller’s office is accepting proposals from bond counsel firms for any city financing to cover its share of a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Three years after its much ballyhooed launch by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, slow to get off the ground, is getting a makeover.

Indianapolis won triple-A ratings on its stormwater bonds as it gears up for a $300 million capital plan.

A Cook County Circuit Court judge declared Chicago’s overhaul of two of its four pension funds to be unconstitutional and void in its entirety.

Moody's upgraded Michigan one notch on Friday, citing an improved financial profile, just days after S&P boosted its outlook on the state to positive.

Airlines that operate at the Kansas City International Airport and a city study group prefer a new terminal to renovations of the existing one.

The Illinois legislative audit commission has formally launched its search for candidates to replace retiring auditor general William Holland.

Cook County, Il. won rare praise from a ratings agency Thursday when Moody’s Investors Service said a new sales tax increase to pay off pensions is a credit positive.

The Wisconsin Assembly will take up on Tuesday a financing plan that provides $250 million in public funds for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena.