WGN Political Analyst Paul Lisnek joined WGN Evening News to discuss several big political stories from the week.

While the rest of the state is experiencing a redistricting for the first time this year, Tarrant County is going through the ...

Minnesota is the state where the congressional breakdown most closely matches the 2024 presidential result. Harris received ...

Dozens of Texas Democrats have left the state for Illinois and New York to thwart a quorum needed to vote on new ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislative and congressional members stood with Texas state lawmakers in their opposition ...

Texas Democrats hightail it to Illinois to stymie a redistricting effort. And Chicago Public Schools grapples with its fiscal crisis as a budget deadline approaches.

Texas is being accused of conspiring to undermine the Voting Rights Act by breaking up existing minority-majority districts.

CHICAGO - More than 50 Democratic House members left the state, keeping the Republican-led House from moving forward with a ...

Texas’ Republican attorney general and a GOP Illinois state senator filed a petition in more conservative Adams County rather ...

UCLA is the first public university whose federal grants have been targeted by the administration over allegations of civil ...

Democrats concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps. But they want to encourage blue ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with ...