Yvette was a senior reporter, covering the Midwest. She earned a bachelors in journalism from Columbia College Chicago, began her reporting career at the storied City News Bureau of Chicago, and joined the Bond Buyer in 1997 leading Midwest coverage from her hometown Chicago.
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The city’s timing is good as long as market demand for municipals, especially higher yielding paper, stays on track, municipal bond investors say.
October 28 -
The Illinois Municipal Electric Agency will have paid off its debt by the time the Prairie State Energy Campus faces an emissions deadline to avoid an early decommissioning under new Illinois clean energy mandates.
October 27 -
Fitch joined Kroll and Moody's in moving Chicago's outlook to stable from negative as City Council prepares to vote on a budget and $4.4 billion in borrowing.
October 26 -
S&P lifted its outlook to stable on Minneapolis' AAA rating and Fitch went positive on its AA-plus rating.
October 26 -
The full Chicago City Council will cast a final vote on a $4.4 billion bonding authorization and 2022 budget in the coming days.
October 22 -
The Minneapolis native led the former independent financial advisory firm Evensen Dodge Inc. for more than three decades overseeing its expansion from a Minnesota-centric firm to a national one with offices on both coasts.
October 22 -
Wisconsin reported healthier-than-expected fiscal 2021 results that should benefit a new money deal planned for next month.
October 20 -
Illinois passage of clean energy legislation cleared the deck for AMP Ohio's stalled refunding of Prairie State bonds, but mandates that would force the plant's eventual closure loom large.
October 19 -
Several Midwest-based not-for-profit health systems are set to borrow for new or acquired facilities and to refund debt with green bonds and taxables in the mix.
October 18 -
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's finance team laid out plans to tap more than half of $9 billion of existing and proposed borrowing authority through 2022 to refinance debt for savings and fund infrastructure and pandemic recovery efforts.
October 14