Midwest

The Ohio School Facilities Commission last week approved $543 million of capital spending by 13 school districts.

Former Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser, who lost his bid for a second term, has taken a job as director of the Washington, D.C., think tank Governing Institute.

Oakland County will require the cash-strapped city of Pontiac to prepay the county on a monthly basis for police services that it is set to begin providing next month.

Local governments will soon be able to post their budgets online as part of Indiana's effort to boost transparency and public access to information.

Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Loyola University Chicago's rating one level to A2 following the completion of the school's sale of its health system to Trinity Health on June 30.

Newly installed board members of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission — under fire for its oversight of the troubled College Illinois prepaid tuition program — voted Friday to oust its executive director, Andrew Davis.

CHICAGO - Wisconsin will take bids on $338 million of new-money general obligation bonds on July 20, fresh from capturing its lowest rate in recent memory on an $800 million note sale that was held last week.

CHICAGO - The Illinois Supreme Court Monday upheld the state's $31 billion public works program and the funding sources established to repay billions in borrowing, clearing the path for the planned sale of several billion dollars of new debt.

CHICAGO — While its revenues have picked up, Illinois still faces "staggering long-term financial challenges" as it carried $7.4 billion in unpaid obligations — including $3.8 billion in bills owed to schools, transit agencies, health care providers and others — into the new fiscal year, according to Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka.

CHICAGO — For the first time since 2006, Ohio is enjoying an increase in revenue collections.