Hannah Meisel
Hannah Meisel covers state government and politics for Capitol News Illinois. She previously covered the statehouse for NPR Illinois, Illinois Public Radio, The Daily Line and Law360, and also worked a temporary stint at political blog Capitol Fax in 2018.
She has also worked as a reporter for Illinois Public Media in Urbana, and served as NPR Illinois' statehouse intern in 2014 while working toward a master's degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Hannah also holds a journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a reporter and managing editor at The Daily Illini.
In 2020, the Washington Post named Hannah as one of the best political reporters in Illinois.
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The would-be union claims its members rights were violated under Illinois' 2022 ‘Workers’ Rights Amendment.’ -
The nursing home industry is still reeling from COVID, which exacerbated pre-existing challenges in long-term care – difficulties hiring and retaining staff and a population more reliant on government-funded care chief among them. -
Many Illinois measures will now head to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, including a bill that changes how damages accrue under Illinois’ first-in-the-nation biometric data privacy law. -
A lawsuit by nearly 100 former detainees alleges Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice officials allowed rampant sexual abuse in its detention centers between 1996 and 2017. -
Illinois election officials are investigating if Darren Bailey unlawfully collaborated with conservative figure Dan Proft in his 2022 bid against Gov. J.B Pritzker. -
The governor is pushing his proposal as some teacher unions are amping up pressure on lawmakers to "undo" a 2011-era pension law they allege runs afoul of federal retirement law. -
An Illinois judge told Tim Mapes, a former Madigan aide, his ‘loyalty was greatly misguided’ in lying to grand jury investigating the former state house speaker. -
An Illinois business can violate BIPA by not getting written consent from customers or employees for the data being collected, not having a storage policy in place or not properly protecting the data. -
Illinois Justice P. Scott Neville wrote the state supreme court’s unanimous opinion that staffing agencies are not exempt from the state’s antitrust laws. -
The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled that members’ voting power isn’t a "benefit" protected by the constitution.
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The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled the state's strongest-in-the-nation biometric privacy law does, in fact, exempt health care workers' biometric information collected for treatment of patients. -
Fire and police pensioners in Illinois' municipalities challenged a 2019 law that consolidated 649 funds for higher returns, claiming the change actually hurts retirees voting power.
