Midwest

The Gary/Chicago International Airport, located in struggling Gary, Ind., is making its first bond market appearance this week with the sale of $30 million of tax increment-backed bonds.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation proposed a series of tax and fee hikes to raise $750 million over the next two years to address a funding gap.

Cincinnati-based Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has hired public finance attorney Matthew Miller to bolster its Chicago office.

Ohio voters shot down 13 of 17 levy requests by school districts in the recent election, a series of defeats that Moody's Investors Service warns could mean pressure the fiscal positions of several of the districts.

Metra, the transit agency that provides commuter rail linking Chicago suburbs to Chicago, approved a 2015 budget that sets the stage for the agency's debut as a tax-exempt borrower with an inaugural $100 million issue.

A group of northwest Indiana counties is eyeing a bid for a 75-year lease of the Indiana Toll Road that would be financed with more than $4 billion of tax-exempt revenue bonds.

A Chicago parks advocacy group has launched a legal challenge to block Star Wars' creator George Lucas' plans to use a site along with Lake Michigan shoreline for his proposed museum.

The Michigan Senate approved a new road funding tax that could raise as much as $1.5 billion in new annual funding, marking a victory for Gov. Rick Snyder.

The Chicago suburb of Bridgeview is restructuring $2 million of TIF bonds — and attaching its general obligation pledge to the debt — to help ease a massive debt tied to a troubled soccer stadium.

Missouri will offer its first new-money sale in seven years with its top ratings intact as analysts say it's too early to tell whether a newly approved constitutional amendment or tax cut package will undercut state finances.