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.”
When Harris is in Chicago Friday to keynote Everytown for Gun Safety’s conference, she will hold a private meeting with young gun violence prevention activists.
The Obama Foundation compensation package for its chief executive, Valerie Jarrett, jumped to $754,064, in 2022, up from $592,905 in 2021.
Minyon Moore got her start in politics in Chicago. She worked in Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign, in the Clinton White House and helped usher Ketanji Brown Jackson through her Supreme Court confirmation.
Trump’s three not-guilty pleas appeals to his supporters — and enhances his martyr status as he leads rivals seeking the 2024 Republican Party nomination for president.
Trump’s election case will be tried in a Washington federal courtroom, with a jury pulled from this Democratic city before a judge tapped by former President Barack Obama.
“It’s time to move on and focus on winning in the fall of 2024,” Illinois National Committeeman Richard Porter told the Sun-Times.
‘What Emmett did, he gave up a lot, but it helped a lot of people. And he still speaks from the grave,’ Emmett Till’s cousin, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., who witnessed Till being kidnapped, told the Sun-Times.
“These places contain historic objects that illuminate the complicated fabric of our Nation and the injustice and inequality that Black people continue to experience today,” President Joe Biden said in signing the proclamation Tuesday.
The agreement, to be signed Tuesday, “is more expansive than in years past and comes earlier in the process than ever before,” Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said.