Coronavirus Impact
Coronavirus Impact

Chicago’s motor fuel bonds, the city’s park district, and Cook County suffered rating or outlook cuts this week.

May 1
6 Min Read
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Issuance in the public finance sector is likely to contract in 2020, S&P Research says.

May 1
3 Min Read

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there could be three tranches of federal aid directed to state, county and municipal governments

May 1
4 Min Read

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney's revised budget proposed reflects a massive revenue shortfall, related to the shutdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

May 1
3 Min Read

Better technology can help enhance efficiency, analysts and civic leaders say.

May 1
6 Min Read

The Municipal Liquidity Facility is not enough to counter the fiscal effects of COVID-19, says the man who helped rescue the city from its 1970s fiscal crisis.

May 1
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“Any inroads the governor believes the state could have made this year will be derailed by this crisis," said Richard Ciccarone, president of Merritt Research Services

Illinois published its fiscal 2019 financial results Thursday as strains from the coronavirus pandemic loom large over fiscal 2020 and 2021.

April 30
5 Min Read
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A range of technical issues — from month-end accounting and financing to spread widening, price volatility and the coronavirus impact on businesses and the economy — spurred a tone of relative quiet in Thursday's trade.

April 30
6 Min Read
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