Midwest

The Kentucky House passed a bill that would ban the use of tolls for the $3.5 billion Brent Spence Bridge project being planned by Kentucky and Ohio, while moving ahead with P3 projects elsewhere in the state.

A pair of bond insurers filed lawsuits this week challenging key aspects of Detroit's bankruptcy debt plan, litigation that could derail the city's goal of exiting by the fall.

Plans for major terminal overhauls are afoot for airports at Kansas City and Des Moines where officials are promoting the need to modernize the air fields to meet current and future aviation demands.

Syncora is challenging Detroit's latest attempt to settle with its interest-rate swap counterparties, a day after FGIC filed a challenge to the city's lawsuit attempting to invalidate its pension certificates.

More Illinois school districts struggled financially in their last fiscal year, according to the Illinois Board of Education's latest financial profiles report.

Bond insurer Financial Guaranty Insurance Company has asked the bankruptcy court overseeing Detroit's Chapter 9 to allow it to intervene in a city lawsuit that attempts to repudiate $1.4 billion of pension certificate debt.

The Chicago Park District criticized Moody's Investors Service on for its latest downgrade, arguing the agency pays too much attention to the district's links with the city of Chicago and not enough to its fiscal strengths including recent pension reforms. Chicago Public Schools were also downgraded.

A proposed 47-mile toll road linking Indiana and Illinois is eligible for a federal TIFIA loan that could reduce construction costs by up to 20%, officials said.

Once known as "Little Detroit," the small city of Connersville has declared a financial emergency, warning it might not have enough money to make payroll by May.

The Chicago Infrastructure Trust will open a search Wednesday for investors to finance energy efficiency upgrades at Chicago's public swimming pools.