Lynn Sweet

Lynn Sweet is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times and a columnist for The Hill, a weekly newspaper that covers the U.S. Congress, and for The Huffington Post.

Sweet is a past president of the Washington Press Club Foundation and is a member of the Gridiron Club.

Sweet, a Chicago native, holds a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism(1975). She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley after attending the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.