Capitol Cast: Illinois
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Mar 8, 2024 • 15min
Capitol Cast: Illinois lawmakers near the halfway mark in their 2024 session
CNI Editor in Chief Jerry Nowicki breaks down the big issues before Illinois lawmakers with Broadcast Director Jennifer Fuller.
Mar 2, 2024 • 4min
Capitol News Roundup: March 2, 2024
CNI Broadcast Director Jennifer Fuller recaps the week's news from around the state.
Mar 1, 2024 • 15min
Capitol Cast: Prairie Band Potawatomi seek to reclaim land
CNI's Peter Hancock talks with Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Chairman Joseph "Zeke" Rupnick about House Bill 4718, which would return land in DeKalb County to the Native American nation.
Feb 24, 2024 • 6min
Capitol News Roundup: February 24, 2024
CNI Broadcast Director Jennifer Fuller recaps the week's news from around the state.
Feb 23, 2024 • 17min
Capitol Cast: FY 2025 budget proposal
CNI Broadcast Director Jennifer Fuller talks with Editor-in-Chief Jerry Nowicki about Gov. JB Pritzker's proposed FY 2025 budget, along with reaction to it and more.
Feb 17, 2024 • 9min
Capitol News Roundup: February 17, 2024
CNI Broadcast Director Jennifer Fuller recaps the week's news from around the state.
Feb 16, 2024 • 17min
Capitol Cast: Sam McCann trial ends as strangely as it began
CNI's Jennifer Fuller talks with Hannah Meisel, who covered the federal corruption trial of former state Sen. Sam McCann.
Feb 9, 2024 • 13min
Former Illinois Congressman joins amicus brief in Colorado case before U.S. Supreme Court
Once a Tea Party Republican, former Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois now calls himself "politically homeless," and independent conservative, and a never-Trumper.
CNI Broadcast Director Jennifer Fuller talks with Walsh about his choice to join an amicus brief in support of Colorado's decision to bar Trump from the 2024 primary ballot.
Feb 3, 2024 • 6min
Capitol News Roundup: February 3, 2024
CNI Broadcast Director Jennifer Fuller recaps the week's top news from around Illinois via Capitol News Illinois
Feb 2, 2024 • 29min
Capitol Cast: A half-century after Roe, how will abortion rights play into 2024 elections?
CNI's Peter Hancock examines how Roe v. Wade and 2022's Dobbs decision may impact the 2024 elections.
