November 15, 2022
An attorney for the financially beleaguered city of Chester, sitting just outside Philadelphia, told a bankruptcy judge Tuesday that the city planned to crawl out of debt by attracting businesses and industry, as well as bringing the city's privatized water system back under municipal control.
November 10, 2022
The struggling city of Chester, Pennsylvania, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy Thursday, after 27 years in financially distressed status under state law and buckling beneath pension obligations.