Lynn Sweet
Washington Bureau Chief
Lynn Sweet is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She appears frequently on CNN and other outlets as an analyst. Sweet has a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She also attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sweet is a former fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Sweet is in Northwestern University’s Medill Hall of Achievement and was named by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the capital’s “50 Top Journalists.”
Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old from Plainfield, was slain Oct. 14. Law enforcement officials said he was a victim of a hate crime, targeted for his Muslim faith.
Top White House officials are facing the same push-back in Chicago as they did from Palestinian and Muslim leaders in Michigan. Their visit comes as early voting is already underway in Tuesday’s Illinois primary.
President Joe Biden nominated Perry in June 2023 to replace former U.S. Attorney John Lausch. But she has since waited eight months to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, longer than the last eight men to hold the position — with no end in sight.
‘I know the last five months have been gut-wrenching for so many people, for the Israeli people, the Palestinian people, and so many here in America,’ Biden said.
With access to in vitro fertilization now an issue, several members from Illinois are bringing guests who work in reproductive health.
Before heading to McCormick Place to see the prototype, former President Barack Obama will review interior designs of furniture, the retail store, the restaurant, the café and everything in between for his presidential center.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, keynoting a fundraiser for the Democratic Party of Virginia, said Saturday Trump will “spew his hateful lies, his vitriol, his dark vision for this country, and he’ll do everything he can to claw his way back into office. But we’re not going to let him, are we?”
If you want to know if I think J.B. Pritzker, in his second term as Illinois governor, will one day run for president, I do. It’s nothing he said. I’m just reading the tea leaves.
GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi blocked an IVF protection bill that Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, wanted to fast track on the Senate floor Wednesday.