Midwest

Three members of Illinois' congressional delegation are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to complete a new environmental impact study and hold new public hearings on Chicago's $8 billion runway expansion.

Chicago has reached a tentative five-year contract with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31 on Thursday.

Bond insurer Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. has subpoenaed Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Sean Werdlow, with Siebert Brandford Shank and a former Detroit CFO, for a deposition in the Detroit bankruptcy.

Public distrust and confusion over public-private partnerships along with the lack of creative thinking on the technology front are among the constraints Chicago confronts as it looks to address its infrastructure needs, said panelists at a forum.

The board of commissioners for Macomb County, Mich., June 19 approved a measure to issue up to $300 million of bonds to pay off its retiree health care costs.

U.S. Chief District Judge Gerald Rosen, the top mediator in Detroit's bankruptcy case, has ordered the city into talks with water and sewer revenue bondholders, one of the few holdout creditors in the case.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Friday signed a package of bills aimed at resolving Detroit's Chapter 9 case at a triumphant ceremony where the governor and others proclaimed the end is in sight for the historic bankruptcy.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker participated in a "criminal scheme" to illegally coordinate fundraising and campaign activity among conservative groups fighting recall elections that targeted him and Republican state senators, state prosecutors allege in newly unsealed court documents.

The 2013 actuarial reports for the two Chicago pension funds that were the subject of a legislative fix underscore their troubled conditions prior to the overhaul even as one reported a slight improvement.

As Detroit released preliminary bond documents for next week's $185 million streetlight sale, Fitch Ratings assigned a BBB-plus to the borrowing, saying it believes the utility tax revenues pledged to the bonds are not at risk in the city's bankruptcy.