In the Loop (Segments)

As of Monday, it’s up to Illinois businesses to make their own rules about masking. Reset checks in with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Loyola University Chicago to find out how they’re approaching this phase of the pandemic.

Reset discusses the scope and impact of Ukraine’s current humanitarian crisis.

What’s That Building series with Dennis Rodkin of Crain’s Chicago Business. We’re talking about John and Mary Jane Jones, a Black power couple back in late 1800s Chicago, and the locations and structures where they left their mark in this city.

For the first time in nearly three decades, Major League Baseball games are being canceled due to a labor dispute. And the bad baseball news might not end there. Major League Baseball owners and the union representing players continue to be at a standstill over a new collective bargaining agreement. And they are far from seeing eye to eye. WBEZ sports contributor Cheryl Raye Stout has the latest.

Residents flee Kherson as Russian troops claim their first Ukrainian city take-over. Reset gets reaction from a Ukrainian-Chicagoan on the lay of the land and from a senior policy counsel on the refugee crisis at hand.

Reset talks to the retired DEA special agents who took down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in the early 1990s. Javier Peña and Steve Murphy served as consultants on the first two seasons of the Netflix series Narcos, which follows Ecobar’s rise to power as head of the Medellin Cartel. They’re scheduled to speak Friday at City Winery.

The One Earth Film Festival features films about the most pressing environmental concerns of our time. Woven throughout the festival, and culminating in an awards night, are films made by young filmmakers from third grade to twenty five years old. Reset checks in with the founding director of that program, as well as a former participant in the young filmmakers contest, to learn more about these e...

A federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment after a lengthy investigation in former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, alleging that his political endeavors resulted in personal financial gain. Reset uncovers the details of the crimes Madigan is accused of committing.

The Chicago Biomedical Consortium is capitalizing on the science that is happening within the participating institutions, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago, by investing in training scientists to understand the business side of things. The members of the inaugural cohort were just announced; they begin on March 7, 2022.

Nearly a week into Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but where does this go from here? Reset hears from a former U.S. Ambassador on how he sees this conflict playing out.

National security experts say Western financial and trading sanctions against Russia could prompt aggressive cyber attacks on Ukraine and NATO partners. Reset hears more of what could come.

The test kitchen is currently on display in Harlem as part of an exhibit called “African/American: Making the Nation’s Table.” We learned about the lasting impact the test kitchen had on the culinary world from Charla Draper, a former food editor at Ebony.

In his first State of the Union address Tuesday, President Joe Biden addressed the Ukraine crisis and tackled a wide range of issues affecting Americans. Reset checks in with a Democratic speechwriter for the biggest takeaways and missed opportunities.

Most of us have been shocked by the death and destruction we’ve seen in news coverage of the war in Ukraine. But some have begun voicing their shock over something else they’re seeing in the coverage… bias and racism. Both in how the war is being reported and how black refugees are being treated at the border.

Anti-transgender bills and directives from top state officials in Texas and elsewhere have put trans youth in fear for their health and safety. Reset checks in with two providers of gender-affirming care about how those efforts put trans youth at more risk and can also spread misinformation.

Ukrainian Chicagoans hope conflict in their home country will end soon as Russian forces continue to lay siege to Ukrainian cities. Reset gets analysis from a local lawyer who worked with Ukraine in the early days of its independence.

Each episode of Unboxing Queer History focuses on a different collection that was donated to the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives in Rogers Park. They range from profiling Miss Tillie, the ‘Dirty Old Lady of Chicago’ to the creators of Amigas Latinas. Reset talks with two of the people involved in making this podcast, about what these collections can open up and teach us about ourselves.

All throughout the pandemic, we’ve heard countless facts and figures about the toll COVID-19 has taken on our country and our world. But what often gets forgotten in those numbers are the people we’ve lost and the loved ones who are left grieving. Reset hears from two women about how they’re navigating their grief after losing their husband to the virus, and what they want people to understand abo...

The masks may have come off in many public spaces across Illinois, but Chicago Public Schools insists on keeping faces covered for the time being. What’s the rationale behind the city’s mask mandate?

Tony award-winning musical “Come from Away”, playing at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre, tells the story of how the small town Gander, Newfoundland, opened its arms to thousands of diverted passengers on 9/11.

The government agency ranks Covid-related hospital admissions and number of available ICU hospital beds as more important than number of Covid cases in a community for assessing virus risk. Reset asks infectious disease specialist Dr. Mia Taormina about what these changes will mean for Illinois.

Reset checks in with the general manager at Dill Pickle food co-op in Logan Square, the owner of Chi Hair Imports in River North, and the manager of a gym in Chatham on the first day of the state removing indoor mask and vaccine card mandates.

President Joe Biden on Friday named Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his pick to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Reset checks in with two law professors about the historic nomination, which would make Jackson the first Black woman justice in the court’s 223-years.

Ukrainian-Americans in Chicago speak out as Russian troops continue to attack their home country. Reset hears from two Ukrainian-Americans in Chicago.

Russian troops move into the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv today to strike at the heart of the country and its political power. Reset hears more about what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine today.