Peter Hancock
ReporterPeter Hancock joined the Capitol News Illinois team as a reporter in January 2019.
Before that, Hancock covered Kansas state government for much of the past two decades. For the previous 4 years, Hancock had been the statehouse reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World. He provided year-round daily coverage of the Kansas Statehouse, state government, appellate courts, elections and Kansas’ congressional delegation. He previously worked for 8 years as a statehouse reporter for Kansas Public Radio, and with the Kansas Health Policy Authority and the Kansas Education Policy Report.
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Numbers of hospitalizations, and patients in ICU or on ventilator, declining in Illinois -
Measures would give voters direct say in legislative process, they say
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Proposal would create new subcircuits in additional counties
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Surge in COVID-19 cases will cut number of in-person session days
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Census estimates show state lost more than 113,000 in one year
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Oral arguments focus on racial impact of new legislative maps
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Legislative maps in Chicago, Metro East at issue
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Court documents set the stage for oral arguments starting Dec. 7
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Pritzker says maps reflect Illinois’ diversity, preserve minority representation
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Clarifies that the law does not prohibit employers from enforcing COVID-19 mandates
