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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The 6-3 ruling keeps troops out of Chicago while underlying case moves forward. -
January retrial canceled in deal that would see charges dropped in a year -
Judge rebuffs suggestion that ending lawsuit over immigration agents’ use of force would preclude new claims -
Meanwhile, protesters, clergy and news orgs to end litigation over riot control weapons -
Longtime Illinois Democratic power broker now in a West Virginia prison -
Operation Midway Blitz has wound down in the two weeks since injunction’s issuing -
Democrats, including 9th Congressional District candidate Kat Abughazaleh, arraigned -
Federal judge finds immigration agents ‘intended to cause protesters harm’ -
Ruling follows hours of testimony from former detainees who couldn’t speak to lawyers -
Former detainees grow emotional while judge weighs temporary restraining order
