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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Illinois' tardy fiscal 2020 financial statements offer a view of COVID-19's early impact on the state's finances.
August 31 -
S&P has Muncie and Plainfield on its watch list with negative implications.
August 30 -
Sturdy contracts support repayment of AMP's Prairie State Energy Campus bonds but the coal-fired plant faces pressure from Illinois decarbonization legislation.
August 30 -
As hospitalizations surge because of the new coronavirus variant, Fitch Ratings and Kaufman Hall warn of threats to not-for-profit healthcare's fiscal recovery.
August 27 -
Rachael Eubanks, Suzanne Beitel, and Danielle Scott will receive Founders Awards at the Women in Public Finance conference set for Chicago next month.
August 26 -
An uptick in new money borrowing fell far short of making up for a decline in refundings.
August 24 -
Automatic deposits would flow to the near empty rainy day and pension stabilization funds if the state government's unpaid bill backlog stays under $3 billion.
August 17 -
Illinois hits the market over the next month with $500 million of new money and refunding bonds under its sales-tax backed Build Illinois bond program
August 16 -
Refinancing savings and federal relief will fill Chicago's $1 billion 2021 hole while the city ponders how to erase a $733 million gap next year as its budget takes shape.
August 12 -
A federal judge denied Nuveen's motion to dismiss Preston Hollow's antitrust lawsuit concluding a "plausible" claim exists to proceed. PHC faces a tougher legal road ahead in proving its rival orchestrated a damaging boycott.
August 11