18 Facts About Lynn Sweet

Lynn Sweet is an American journalist and in October 2013, became the Washington, DC bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Lynn Sweet has been with the Sun-Times, for over four decades, joining in 1976.

Lynn Sweet has appeared on CNN and MSNBC as a political analyst and has been a frequent guest on C-SPAN and Charlie Rose.

In 2009, Lynn Sweet was among the winners of the "50 Top Journalists" of the year, chosen by Washingtonian.

However, she transferred in her senior year to the University of California at Berkeley, where she changed her major to Political Science; Lynn Sweet graduated in 1973.

In 1975, Lynn Sweet graduated with her master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism.

Lynn Sweet was inducted into the Medill Hall of Achievement in 2006.

Lynn Sweet was a Spring 2004 Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.

Lynn Sweet landed her first job in the newspaper business at the weekly Independent-Register in Libertyville, Illinois; she worked for Time magazine, until 1976, when she started at the Sun-Times working with "Action Time," a consumer help feature.

Later, Lynn Sweet became a general assignment reporter, first covering Cook County government and the Daley Center courts, gaining experience in Chicago politics.

Lynn Sweet was one of the first reporters in the country to fact-check state and local political advertisements.

Lynn Sweet was gaining a reputation from her colleagues, for her tenacity and tough stance in political reporting.

Lynn Sweet was working in Washington when she wrote a series of stories exposing the Democratic National Committee offering big money donors access to the Clinton White House and the Clinton administration's practice of allowing donors to fly on Air Force One.

The other journalists shrank while Lynn Sweet chewed out the staffer.

Lynn Sweet witnessed the Highland Park parade shooting and recorded footage of it.

In 1999, when Barack Obama was running for the seat in the House of Representatives, he paid a visit to Lynn Sweet and gave her a copy of his book, Dreams from My Father, which she says she put on a bookshelf and never opened until June 2004, as his popularity rose and he had given his speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Lynn Sweet would become known as one of Obama's toughest critics.

Lynn Sweet booked the room so she could see who was going in and out.