Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen Federal Building on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of 10 corruption counts. He was acquitted on seven counts, while the jury deadlocked on six counts. (Credit: Andrew Adams/Capitol News Illinois)
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen Federal Building on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of 10 corruption counts. He was acquitted on seven counts, while the jury deadlocked on six counts. (Credit: Andrew Adams/Capitol News Illinois)

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Hannah is a statehouse and Chicago reporter for Capitol News Illinois. She has been covering Illinois government and politics since 2014, and since then has worked for a variety of outlets from NPR affiliate stations to a startup newsletter. She’s a graduate of both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the U of I’s Springfield campus, where she received an M.A. through the Public Affairs Reporting program and got her start reporting in the Capitol.