Board of Education of the City of Chicago

CFO Carole Brown says the Windy City is being shortchanged in terms of ratings and yields.

The school district's borrowing plans got a boost Thursday from S&P Global Ratings, which upgraded it to B-plus from B.

Moody's revised the outlook on $3 billion of Chicago parks, water and sewer bonds to stable.

CPS inches up speculative grade credit ladder, which in turn helps garner Chicago a stable outlook.

Chicago Public Schools has GO, revenue, and refunding bond deals in the works.

A general obligation refunding is definitely in the cards for Chicago Public Schools, and a new money deal may come as well.

Municipal bond investors reacted cautiously to the rally in Treasurys as they looked for confirmation that the new yield levels are here to stay.

Municipal bonds were trading stronger Tuesday, with yields falling as much as five basis points, according to the MBIS benchmark scale.

Water, wastewater, and securitization deals, and possibly an O'Hare airport sale, are still to come from Chicago this year.

The district priced debt Thursday at narrower spreads than it faced in a November sale.

The Chicago Board of Education more than doubled the size of its general obligation deal to take advantage of demand.

The district is promoting structural protections and fiscal gains as it prepares to go to market with a $260 million refunding.

With tax season in the rear view mirror, supply is set to rise to $7.8 billion as demand rebounds.

Next week's $7.8 billion new issue slate features airport and water deals coming from New York and Texas issuers.

S&P Global Ratings still has the district well inside junk-bond territory at a B rating.

Chicago Public Schools officials say the deal won't include any scoop-and-toss restructuring for budget relief.

With a new funding formula and budget in place, Illinois' latest review of school finances has fewer dire warnings then last year's.

The unfunded pension burden for Chicago, Cook County, and other local funds hit $50 billion in fiscal 2016.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's budget proposal would push some state costs onto schools and universities

Release of the spending plan marks the first salvo in the fiscal 2019 budget season.