Midwest

The Green Bay Packers have broken ground on the $130 million, privately financed renovation the team announced late last month for the publicly owned Lambeau Field.

Columbus-based law firm Peck, Shaffer & Williams LLP has hired a new attorney for its Columbus office.

Fitch Ratings last week downgraded to BB-plus from BBB its rating on $80 million of facilities revenue bonds issued for Mercy Medical Center, a 337-bed teaching hospital in Canton.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced last week that a former superintendent of the Kansas City school system will be in charge of a new system that will operate the state’s lowest performing schools.

Indiana recently said it will hand control of five academically troubled schools to private school-management firms.

A mayoral task force on tax-increment financing reform in Chicago has recommended greater oversight of private subsidies in TIF districts and the development of a multi-year economic development plan to better judge the value of projects.

CHICAGO - The Indiana Municipal Power Agency, which supplies power to municipal electric utilities, is expected to enter the market Thursday with $88.5 million of power supply system revenue bonds.

CHICAGO - Chicago-based law firm Chapman and Cutler LLP has hired public finance attorney Robert Drillings to staff the New York office and expand the firm's municipal practice there as well as in New England and the mid-Atlantic region.

CHICAGO — The Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Bank plans to enter the market next week with $200 million of subordinate, special-tax bonds to refund debt issued 14 years ago to finance Conseco Fieldhouse, home of the Indiana Pacers pro basketball team.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is looking to hire a consultant to explore the privatization of the Ohio Lottery.