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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New Salem volunteers blame state for letting historic site fall into disrepair -
Proposal to legalize ‘iGaming’ comes as Illinois' still-growing sports betting market turns 5 -
Finding comes after Pritzker proposed to defund the larger of the two programs -
Deliberations begin after 3 months of testimony and week-long closing arguments -
Feds claim ex-speaker ‘controlled’ his allies’ contracts with ComEd, contrary to his testimony -
Closing arguments scheduled for next week, 3 months after trial officially began -
Madigan’s attorneys accuse FBI agent of leading speaker into government’s trap -
Longtime political worker Ed Moody collected $354,000 in indirect payments from ComEd -
In same call, co-defendant justified the contracts as necessary ‘because Mike Madigan came to us’ -
Defense attorneys try to undercut Fidel Marquez’s credibility after gun purchase attempt
