His daughter, Gwen, was found unresponsive at home.
Rep. Sean Casten talks with voters during a campaign event at a supporter's Western Springs home on May 22, 2022.
Suburban U.S. Rep Sean Casten’s 17-year-old daughter died Monday morning at the family’s Downers Grove home, the congressman’s office and Downers Grove police said this evening. “This morning, congressman Casten’s beloved daughter, Gwen, passed away,” the Casten campaign said in a statement. “The Casten family requests privacy, and we will be issuing no further comment during this heartbreaking time.”Downers Grove police were called to a house in the block where Casten lives just before 7 a.m. Monday “for an unresponsive seventeen year old female,” according to a Police Department statement. “First responders determined that the subject was deceased.
Congressman Sean Casten along with his daughters Gwen, 14, left, and Audrey, 11, right, walk through the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 4, 2019 in Washington. Casten is locked in a closely watched primary fight with fellow Democratic U.S. Rep. Marie Newman in the newly redrawn 6th Congressional District that spans from the Southwest Side of Chicago through the south and west suburbs.
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