CHICAGO – Inside the Chicago church where he was baptized and confirmed, former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski was remembered Tuesday as a guy from the neighborhood who just happened to be one of the most ...

Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a ...

Dan Rostenkowski was the most important congressman Chicago ever sent to Washington. But both his success and his downfall were the result of his upbringing in the Daley-run Chicago Machine. There was ...

CHICAGO – and a potent symbol of Washington's excesses after he pleaded guilty to corruption charges. When he died Wednesday of lung cancer at age 82, those who knew him recalled a meat-and potatoes ...

Rep. Dan Rostenkowski appears ready to resign his congressional seat-including the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, which has defined his political career-if he can come to terms ...

Family and friends paid a final farewell Tuesday to legendary lawmaker Dan Rostenkowski at his long-time church across the street from his home on Chicago’s Northwest Side. National Democrats mostly ...

With rumpled suits and gruff, growling voice, Dan Rostenkowski quietly wielded enormous power on Capitol Hill for more than 30 years, becoming one of the most powerful lawmakers of his time – and a ...

Until this year, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski has never faced any real competition in his re-election contests. When he was first sent to Congress by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley 34 years ago, the idea ...

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Dan Rostenkowski, the iconic longtime House Ways and Means chairman whose legacy was tarnished by the Congressional Post Office scandal, died Wednesday at his home, according to several news reports.

Reporting from Chicago — Dan Rostenkowski, an old-style Chicago ward boss who became one of the nation’s most powerful legislators during the Reagan era before a stunning fall to corruption charges ...

CHICAGO — Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died ...