Evan Holden
InternEvan Holden is the Public Affairs Reporting intern for WGLT. He joined the station in January 2026.
He attends the University of Illinois Springfield and is from St. Louis. He graduated from the University of Missouri, Mizzou, with a journalism and history degree. When Evan was at Mizzou, he worked for NPR member station KBIA and the Columbia Missourian newspaper. He then worked for NPR Illinois in the fall.
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Democratic state Sen. Dave Koehler reflects on data center regulations, the budget process, a bill regulating down coding, insurance and the farmer's estate tax laws. -
Illinois lawmakers unanimously passed a bill during the spring legislative session that gives more transparency and tools to parents to defend themselves in child abuse cases. -
The widow of an Illinois State University administrator struck and killed by an e-bike praised the legislation, which passed with mostly bipartisan support in the final hours of the spring legislative session. -
Here's how state Sens. Dave Koehler and Chris Balkema and Reps. Sharon Chung and Ryan Spain voted on the budget package that passed in Springfield early Monday morning. -
The Illinois legislature has passed rate-increase regulations for both home and auto insurance, though critics argue the changes fail to address the root cause of rate increases and could backfire by raising costs and reducing options for coverage. -
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin talked about his life in politics during an address Wednesday to the Illinois legislature. Durbin was elected to the Senate in 1996 and is retiring in January 2027. -
A Morton farmer was applying pesticides on a farm near the Bethel Lutheran School, which was hosting an outdoor school event. A parent of one of the kids affected filed a compliant that the farmer did not take the proper precautions associated with high wind. -
The Illinois legislature passed a bill requiring female CPR manikins for schools, with most Republicans voting against the bill. The bill now goes to the governor's desk to be signed into law. -
A bill introduced in the Illinois legislature would allow teachers to challenge notices of remedy, actions that go against school policy but can be fixed. Opponents have raised concern that this could erase documentation of patterns of abuse by teachers. -
GOP legislators also introduced bills to make it easier for people older than 65 to get a homestead exemption, and allow property tax assessments to be published online.
