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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Justices rule against nurses who sued over hospitals’ use of fingerprint medicine cabinets. -
Sam McCann fired his court-appointed attorneys on his trial’s scheduled start date.
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The 2-1 ruling sets up likely appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
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The Illinois House approved the plan, but it faces a less certain future in the Senate.
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Business executives float easier work permit process as solution to ongoing worker shortage.
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Tim Mapes was charged with lying to a grand jury investigating Madigan and his inner circle.
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Deliberations begin in obstruction of justice and perjury trial of Tim Mapes.
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Closing arguments expected Wednesday in trial of Tim Mapes.
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The jury was shown evidence that Mapes’ communications with Mike McClain contradicted previous testimony.
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Tim Mapes’ perjury and obstruction of justice trial begins with opening statements.
