Lynn Sweet biography

Lynn Sweet is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She writes a column and a blog for the paper. She has covered politics and government from Chicago's street brawls to the White House. Sweet is focusing on the 2008 presidential campaign, with an emphasis on the White House bid of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

Sweet is a regular guest on MSNBC programs and has appeared on CNN, FOX, NBC and CBS segments talking about politics. Sweet is a former fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics (spring '04) at the Kennedy School of Government and led a study group on the 2004 presidential campaign.

In 2006, Sweet traveled to Africa with Obama, including a visit to his father's native Kenya. As the violence between Israelis and Palestinians was deepening, in 2002 she was sent to the region to cover the conflict. In 1995, Sweet broke the story on the perks the Clinton White House offered major donors. In 1990 Sweet was one of the first journalists in the U.S. to analyze political ads for accuracy.

Before moving to Washington in September,1993 Sweet was the political writer for the paper.

Sweet, a Chicago native, holds a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley after attending the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 2007 Sweet was inducted into Medill's Hall of Achievement and the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.