HeyJaredNeil Steinberg
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Despite clown show at the top, local FBI still ‘very good at what they do’ (opens the original)
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Their request was simple enough. They wanted to bring me into headquarters, for briefings, once a week, for a couple months. Something called the FBI Citizens Academy. Why me? Agents in the Chicago office were readers. Flattering, though, the way my mind works, I instantly saw that this wasn’t necessarily a compliment — it was entirely possible that my perspective was seen as so woefully ignorant of the world of law enforcement, they felt duty bound to help me get a clue. Or maybe they just want
Out of the Darkness Walk raises awareness about the heartbreak of suicide (opens the original)
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Shaylin Takesue was smart and funny and beautiful, inside and out. In high school, she played volleyball, despite being 5-foot-1. She was a libero, the back row defensive player. At Illinois State University, where her little sister Olivia was also a student, Shaylin was busy and popular, interested in mental health. She had her own struggles, battling depression. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she sometimes spoke of suicide. But that seemed under control in the spring of 2023. Shaylin was out
Hard to find a good Kosher candy to throw at your kids (opens the original)
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To be a Chicagoan — yes, I know I’m not — is to have a certain nostalgia about candy. Growing up here — OK, I grew up near Cleveland, thank you for noticing — meant to be aware of the enormous Brach’s factory on the West Side and the Spanish Revival Mars confectionary on Oak Park Avenue. Visits downtown were liable to give you a contact high from the cocoa aroma rolling off the Blommer’s chocolate factory. Being a fat kid — try snatching thataway from me, you touchy chauvinists — I had a viscera
The young know artificial intelligence is 'going to be part of our lives for a really, really long time' (opens the original)
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Robots, rather than the software that runs them, are what first appealed to Soham Batra. “My interest in technology didn’t start with AI,” said the 17-year old high school senior. “It started with robotics. When I was a lot younger, around elementary school, I was very involved with Lego robotics. That sparked my interest. I was thrown into a class where we expected to make them move. We’re just a bunch of 6-year-olds and I was [thinking]: ‘How do I even do that?’ Then I started looking into it
Man who died days after being shot in Humboldt Park identified, death ruled homicide (opens the original)
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A man who was died days after he was shot in Humboldt Park last week has been identified and his death has been ruled a homicide. Raymond Hammitte, 38, died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, according to a Wednesday autopsy done by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Hammitte was in the 800 block of North Kedzie Avenue around 5:10 p.m. Sept. 10 when he was shot in the face and head, Chicago police said. Hammitte, whose address was not immediately known, was ta
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