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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State reached record-high tax revenue of over $2 billion last year
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State supreme court rules unanimously in case stemming from 2020 traffic stop
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Jury deliberated for nearly 15 hours before announcing stalemate on all counts
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Feds claim AT&T won big in Springfield only after hiring ex-Illinois House speaker’s political ally
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‘Dark money’ group founded and funded by Pritzker rolls out strategy at DNC
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Leaders claim their odds are ‘no different’ than before Biden dropped out
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Our panel looks ahead.
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Former speaker, allies seek to leverage new, narrowed interpretation of federal bribery law
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Party chair, national committee representatives all stepping down
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Incoming leader’s advice comes after outgoing chair cited intraparty tension in resignation letter
