Hannah Meisel
ReporterHannah covers state government and politics for Capitol News Illinois. She's been dedicated to the statehouse beat since interning at NPR Illinois in 2014, with subsequent stops at WILL-AM/FM, Law360, Capitol Fax and The Daily Line before returning to NPR Illinois in 2020 and moving on to CNI in 2023.
Hannah holds a journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a reporter and managing editor at The Daily Illini. After college, she interned at NPR in Washington, D.C. and then moved to Springfield to pursue a master’s degree in public affairs reporting at UIS.
In 2020, the Washington Post named Hannah one of the best political reporters in Illinois and in 2021, she won the Illinois News Broadcasters Association's Crystal Mic award for best small market radio reporter in the state. Hannah is a former host of WSEC-TV's weekly political roundtable program CapitolView and makes regular appearances on TV and radio stations across the state, including NPR Illinois’ analysis program State Week in Review.
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Judge tells Mapes his ‘loyalty was greatly misguided’ in lying to grand jury investigating former speaker
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Judge declares Sam McCann out of ‘excuses’ for violating probation orders after discharge.
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On the heels of Chicago approving a phase out of the lower wage, advocates want to end it statewide.
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Business groups have long sought changes to the statute that’s led to hundreds of lawsuits.
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Staffing agencies – a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans – are not exempt from the state’s antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled late last week.
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Justices unanimously ruled members’ voting power isn’t a ‘benefit’ protected by constitution.
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At court hearing, former Democratic powerhouse makes first appearance in court.
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Illinois' attorney general this week agreed to drop enforcement of a new law that targeted what are often called crisis pregnancy centers.
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Justices rule against nurses who sued over hospitals’ use of fingerprint medicine cabinets.
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Sam McCann fired his court-appointed attorneys on his trial’s scheduled start date.