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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Displays offer insight into role of judicial branch -
Long-delayed project moving forward under new leadership -
Pritzker signs bill overhauling mandatory supervised release -
Task force brings multiple agencies together to focus resources -
Agreement provides 4% pay raise this year; nearly 18% over 4 years -
State oversight committee objected to process of how the change was proposed -
Continued noncompliance could result in loss of federal highway funding -
Largest multiyear plan in state history to affect all 102 counties -
Temporary visitor’s licenses will be replaced with document that can be used as ID -
Seventh Circuit hears consolidated appeals in closely watched case
