Peter Roskam

A $7 million campaign war chest wasn't enough for Republican Rep. Peter Roskam to hold off Sean Casten amid a wave of regional and national support that led to Democrats taking control of the U.S. House in last month's election. Democrat Lauren Un...

President Trump slams House Republicans, including Rep. Peter Roskam R-Ill., who distanced themselves from him and lost re-election bids....

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said outgoing Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam "didn't want the embrace" hours after the Wheaton Republican conceded defeat to Democratic challenger Sean Casten. Trump gave a live televised speech Wednesday...

Chicago is a Democratic town, so a number of U.S. House races in the metro area finished up quickly Tuesday night with Dem victories. Winners included incumbent Reps. Robin Kelly, Danny Davis, Brad Schneider and Mike Quigley. Congrats to them and the othe...

With midterm election results still coming in late Tuesday night, several decisive victories pointed to a clear trend: candidates who embraced policies to fight climate change and expand clean energy won the favor of voters. In 2016, Rep. Peter Roskam (R-...

Democratic challenger for 6th Congressional District Sean Casten has defeated Republican incumbent Peter Roskam....

The Latest on the midterm election in Illinois (all times local): 9:30 p.m. Democrat Sean Casten has defeated six-term Republican Rep. Peter Roskam to flip a suburban Chicago district the ... Click to Continue...

Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), a former member of GOP leadership and key player in the Republican tax cut plan, has......

Democrat Sean Casten has defeated six-term Republican Rep. Peter Roskam to flip a suburban Chicago district the GOP has held for more than four decades....

Democrat Sean Casten defeats Rep. Peter Roskam to flip suburban Chicago district GOP has held for decades...

CHICAGO (AP) - Democrat Sean Casten defeats Rep. Peter Roskam to flip suburban Chicago district GOP has held for decades....

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Lauren Underwood was leading Republican Randy Hultgren in the 14th District, and...

Sean Casten, a clean-energy executive, pulled off a major upset Tuesday, unseating six-term GOP Rep. Peter Roskam in Illinois's 6th Congressional District....

After months of debates and speeches, handshakes and selfies, the heated campaign for the pivotal 6th Congressional District has reached its conclusion. Now we wait to see which candidate voters preferred: incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam or De...

Republican Rep. Peter Roskam (6th) has led all candidates this cycle with $6.4 million in receipts....

Republican Rep. Peter Roskam's re-election campaign has taken him to a conference room at the Downers Grove headquarters of Elkay Manufacturing, maker of sinks, faucets and kitchen cabinets. An Elkay executive tells Roskam that the GOP tax cut has ena...

The battle between incumbent Peter roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten is one of the hottest races not just in Illinois, but across the country....

The battle between incumbent Peter roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten is one of the hottest races not just in Illinois, but across the country....

Trump has hurt our country, the GOP-controlled House has been silent, and Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren are Illinois' Exhibits A and B in the mess....

Rep. Peter Roskam is going after Sean Casten after Casten cited sex columnist Dan Savage when asked what "one current leader who most inspires you."...

Two days after President Donald Trump flew to Downstate Illinois for a Republican pep rally that U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam did not attend, the incumbent congressman from the western suburbs turned to one of the president's former rivals for a home-stretc...

Did fact checkers at the Washington Post side with Roskam? And has Roskam always championed those pre-existing protections, as he claimed? No and no....

President heads to Abraham Lincoln's home state to boost Rep. Peter Roskam, whose race is tougher than expected...

Months before politicians saturated Chicago television stations with commercials, lobbyists for the nation's chemical industry bought two weeks of local airtime thanking Republican Congressman Peter Roskam for championing their priorities. The little-...

BARTLETT, Ill. — Republican Rep. Peter Roskam on Wednesday said he remains "very concerned" about President Trump's signature trade policies as he campaigns against a blue tide in a suburban Chicago congressional district that voted for ...

Illinois' 6th Congressional District has been represented by Rep. Peter Roskam, a staunch pro-life Republican from Wheaton, since 2007. In 2016, Roskam was comfortably reelected to a sixth term even as... This story uses functionality that may not wor...

Illinois' 6th Congressional District has been represented by Rep. Peter Roskam, a staunch pro-life Republican from Wheaton, since 2007. In 2016, Roskam was comfortably reelected to a sixth term even as......

Illinois' 6th Congressional District has been represented by Rep. Peter Roskam, a staunch pro-life Republican from Wheaton, since 2007. In 2016, Roskam was comfortably reelected to a sixth term even as... This story uses functionality that may not wor...

Illinois' 6th Congressional District has been represented by Rep. Peter Roskam, a staunch pro-life Republican from Wheaton, since 2007. In 2016, Roskam was comfortably reelected to a sixth term even as... This story uses functionality that may not wor...

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Roskam said he understands the criticism of the ballooning deficit and had wrestled with his decision. Casten countered "Peter's math is just wrong."...

U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten will meet Monday night for what likely will be the final head-to-head debate in the nationally watched 6th Congressional District campaign. Roskam, of Wheaton, is trying to return to Washington ...

Learn more about Peter Roskam and Sean Casten as well as Randy Hultgren and Lauren Underwood in the Sun-Times election voting guide....

After more than a decade representing a reliably Republican suburban Chicago district, Rep. Peter Roskam is suddenly among the most endangered House Republicans seeking re-election...

On primary Election Day in 2006, Margaret Prowell went to the polling place down the road from her new suburban Chicago home and asked for a Democratic ballot. The election ... Click to Continue...

After more than a decade representing a reliably Republican suburban Chicago district, Rep. Peter Roskam is suddenly among the most endangered House Republicans seeking re-election....

After more than a decade representing a reliably Republican suburban Chicago district, Rep. Peter Roskam is suddenly among the most endangered House Republicans seeking re-election...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) — On primary Election Day in 2006, Margaret Prowell went to the polling place down the road from her new suburban Chicago home and asked for a Democratic ballot. The election......

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) — After more than a decade representing a reliably Republican suburban Chicago district, Rep. Peter Roskam is suddenly among the...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) — After more than a decade representing a reliably Republican suburban Chicago district, Rep. Peter Roskam is suddenly among the most endangered House Republicans seeking r......

Illinois Rep. Peter Roskam of the 6th Congressional District had big plans for how the Republican tax giveaway to the rich was going to help lift the GOP to victory in the midterms. But now that same plan is being wielded against him on the campaign trail...

Others see the irony being that this message is coming from two prominent Republicans who have helped carry the president's agenda in Congress....

Steve Scalise, the No. 3 leader in the U.S. House who was wounded in a shooting at a Congressional baseball practice last year, lent a hand to U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam on Wednesday evening, hosting a fundraising reception for the incumbent Republican as he ...

Rep. Peter Roskam, a chief architect of the sweeping tax cuts, argues they have jump-started economic growth and created jobs. But there's one thing they may not be able to do: save his own job....

LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL — Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) has predicted for months that the GOP tax plan he......

Democrats Lauren Underwood and Sean Casten outraised GOP incumbents Randy Hultgren and Peter Roskam last quarter....

As U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam rallied die-hard Republicans in a private room at the Wheaton Bowl's banquet hall on Wednesday, Ed Raab was outside keeping watch over the check-in counter, the clatter of pins echoing across the lanes. "If I wasn't w...

Outside groups are descending on Illinois' 6th District just weeks before the midterm elections — and bringing their money with them — as six-term GOP Rep. Peter Roskam tries to stave off a bid from Democratic environmental entrepreneur Se...

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