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ILLINOIS Big TIF in RiverCity Aurora's plan to redevelop RiverCity could require as much as a $77 million public investment under a preliminary report on establishing the area as a [...]

ILLINOIS Medical Expansion Fitch IBCA Inc. gave a A rating to Condell Medical Center's $80 million revenue bond issue set to sell during the week of June 19. Banc One [...]

CHICAGO - The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District plans to ask voters to change its charter to make it easier for the agency to issue tax-exempt bonds to help meet [...]

ILLINOIS Parks Chief Resigns Chicago Park District chief Carolyn Williams Meza will step down from the post in October to spend more time with her family, officials announced last week. [...]

CHICAGO - St. Louis will offer up a rare general obligation bond deal tomorrow, its first GO sale since 1986. The city - which is an active revenue bond issuer [...]

By Steve Goldsmith St. Louis will come to market with one more airport bond deal before beginning a major burst of issuance later next year for its $2.6 billion expansion [...]

By Tammy Williamson In the coming months, St. Louis will bring a flurry of bond issues to market, including the city's largest-ever borrowing - for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport - [...]

If Ohio, Detroit, St. Louis, or Polk County, Iowa, were kids taking home their report cards, they'd have a good shot at extended curfews, allowance hikes, and maybe even their [...]

DALLAS - The St. Louis Industrial Development Authority has closed a $62.4 million tax-exempt issue that is the first publicly offered sports facility financing sold unrated, bond officials say. Bond [...]

DALLAS -- The St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority may sell up to $270 million of tax-exempt lease revenue bonds -- which could include a nonrated series -- [...]

St. Louis edged closer to unleashing the largest airport bond issue in history after winning final approval for a $2.6 billion expansion of the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport from the [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration said last week that all safety questions regarding a proposed expansion of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport have been answered, which has St. Louis city officials optimistic [...]

After months of delays, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen late Friday approved a lean $65 million public safety bond package that will now be put on the Nov. 3 [...]

Illinois The Cook County Board of Commissioners may approve a contractor to build its new 464-bed Cook County Hospital as early as Feb. 19. Yesterday, the county board in its [...]

Chicago Bears football team executives have approached the Chicago Park District about extending their lease at Soldier Field, even as they continue their quest for a new stadium. Park District [...]

City Comptroller Darlene Green yesterday said St. Louis expects approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for its 10-year, $2 billion airport expansion project within six months. Green also told attendees [...]

Illinois First Tennessee Capital Markets has recently opened a municipal bond division in Chicago. The unit will underwrite municipal and mortgage-backed securities, senior vice president James Vogel said. The Chicago [...]

Illinois Voters in local elections last week approved 19 school bond referendums worth $208 million while rejecting 22 issues worth $234 million, according to the state Association of School Administrators. [...]

Illinois Officials from the state, Chicago, and the Chicago Bears declined comment last week on reports that a deal was near for a new, $465 million partially bond-financed stadium for [...]

ABN AMRO Chicago Corp., the company created by the recent merger of ABN AMRO Securities Inc. and the Chicago Corp., has created a new unit: the leasing and financial services [...]

Standard & Poor's last week assigned an A-minus rating to St. Louis' $7.2 million of outstanding general obligation debt. The agency had previously rated the city BBB-plus, but the debt [...]

Supporters of a proposed $40 million transit hub in St. Louis are trying to do something that airport officials around the country figured out a long time ago - finance [...]

Illinois Foster Wheeler Corp. announced yesterday that it has received enough bond exchange tenders to proceed with its proposed sale of $320 million of restructured revenue bonds for an incinerator [...]

Three Detroit-area bond referendums succeeded and one suburban initiative failed in Michigan's primary election Tuesday, while Missouri voters approved additional taxes and whittled down their choices for St. Louis comptroller [...]

Missouri issuers were last week's bright spot in a dull Midwest municipal market, with St. Louis leading the pack. The St. Louis Municipal Finance Corp. last Wednesday priced $110.6 million [...]

Retail clients are planning for their golden years by buying high coupon lease revenue bonds from the St. Louis Municipal Finance Corp., according to Stina Wishman, managing director of municipal [...]

St. Louis finance officials are downplaying the role that riverboat gaming taxes will take in an upcoming revenue bond issue - even though that aspect had been highlighted by the [...]

Illinois The state ended fiscal 1996 on June 30 with a record-low backlog in Medicaid bills of $300 million. The state had ended fiscal 1994 with $920 million in Medicaid [...]

CHICAGO -- Missouri Gaming Commission chairman Robert L. Wolfson Sr. has directed commissioners to study the statues of the gambling industry in the state and issue a report on it. [...]

Fitch Investors Service has upgraded its rating on St. Louis' $12 million of general obligation debt to BBB-plus from BBB. The agency also raised its rating on $57 million of [...]

Moody's Investors Service yesterday upgraded St. Louis' underlying general obligation rating to Baa1 from Baa. Analysts cited the city's budgetary controls, strong debt position, and its role as a regional [...]

Illinois The Illinois auditor general is blasting the Illinois Toll Highway Authority for poor management and inadequate computer security in its 1995 review of the bond-issuing agency. According to the [...]

Illinois * The Chicago Public Schools this week kicked off a series of public hearings on a proposed five-year, $787 million capital improvement plan to be financed entirely with debt. [...]

Illinois * Gov. Jim Edgar chipped in $28 million for infrastructure improvements last week to aid Chicago's efforts in keeping the Bears football team in the city. 'The Bears are [...]

Entering the spotlight is never easy, but Darlene Green isn't worried about leaving a behind-the-scenes role as budget chief to become St. Louis' comptroller. Green will be sworn in Monday [...]

Indiana Add northwest Indiana to the growing list of aspirants to be the new home of the Chicago Bears football team. A coalition of business leaders from that region has [...]

Illinois The Cook County Board of Commissioners has approved a construction contract with Partnership for Community Healthcare to manage and oversee the design and construction of a proposed $551 million [...]

CHICAGO - The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District may be reconfigured and given broad authority to issue revenue bonds under a plan being floated by a city advisory group. The [...]

St. Louis officials are predicting they will avoid a technical default on $24 million of revenue bonds now that a city lawmaker has dropped her opposition to a provision of [...]

Illinois Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on transportation last week denied a $10 million funding request from Chicago for a proposed downtown trolley system to be funded [...]

CHICAGO - Standard & Poor's Corp. yesterday upgraded its rating on St. Louis general obligation bonds for the first time since 1978. Analysts said they raised the city's rating to [...]