Jerry Nowicki
Bureau ChiefJerry Nowicki is bureau chief of Capitol News Illinois and has been with the organization since its inception in 2019.
Before joining CNI, Nowicki spent two years on Illinois Senate staff as a legislative aide to state Sen. Steve Landek. Prior to that, he was editor of the LeRoy Farmer City Press, which won the 2015 David B. Kramer Memorial Trophy for Illinois’ best small weekly newspaper.
Complementing his Statehouse and reporting experience, Nowicki has lived in a variety of Illinois communities. He grew up in Evergreen Park, a southwest suburb of Chicago, and has lived for a time in each of New Lenox, Bloomington, Champaign and LeRoy. He currently resides in Springfield.
He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Illinois State University and obtained his master’s degree in communication from Purdue University in May 2019.
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Budget includes investments in education, violence prevention and business incentives -
Protections for noncitizens, criminal justice reform, education changes among bills passed in May -
Cannabis regulation, elections, biometric privacy, ethics measures all filed Friday -
Blue Collar Jobs Act was approved on bipartisan lines in 2019 before governor froze it amid pandemic -
Advocates differ on language requiring strict pass-through of state funding to staff -
Administration, juggling dozens of big-money funding requests, pledges spending won’t exceed revenue -
City beat out Atlanta and New York after receiving support from Democratic Midwest governors -
Statewide building code, requirement that retailers accept cash also advancing through legislature -
Three-year forecast projects revenue decline followed by slow growth -
Individuals with substantiated complaints would be barred from employment in health care
