Jennifer Shea

Multiple carbon capture projects are advancing across the Midwest, but the Trump administration may change the calculus around CCS and net zero goals.

The St. Paul hospital campus of Children's Minnesota. The nonprofit health system plans a bond sale the week of Jan. 13.. Children's Minnesota

Longtime municipal trader Tom Greene is retiring after more than a half-century in the business.

As cigarette sales decline and tobacco giants lose market share to vaping upstarts, some assumptions underlying tobacco securitization bonds have been upended.

Chicago general obligation debt was downgraded by S&P Global Ratings, which cited the city's inability to confront its structural imbalance.

Dr. Bob Froehlich, John Rogers, Jr. and Diane Swonk took the stage at the Executives' Club of Chicago's Annual Economic Outlook panel Tuesday.

The Chicago area's Regional Transporation Authority is calling for $1.5 billion in funding from state and local sources, including higher local sales taxes and rider fares.

Chicago's City Hall, where Mayor Brandon Johnson negotiated a 2025 budget that Moody's called credit neutral but which drew a downgrade from S&P

Kroll Bond Rating Agency downgraded Chicago's general obligation bonds to A-minus from A, citing high fixed costs and one-time fixes. The outlook is negative.

Bond proposals are included in recent budget proposals from the Minnesota and North Dakota governors, as the region's 2026 spending plans begin to take shape.