In the Loop (Segments)

A Halloween night mass shooting in East Garfield Park leaves 14 shot, including three children. Illinois State Board of Elections warns of a text message misinformation campaign. And a big name seems poised to jump into the mayor’s race. Reset goes behind those headlines and more in our Weekly News Recap. GUESTS: Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times Carrie Shepherd, lead p...

A Halloween night mass shooting in East Garfield Park leaves 14 shot, including three children. Illinois State Board of Elections warns of a text message misinformation campaign. And a big name seems poised to jump into the mayor’s race. Reset goes behind those headlines and more in our Weekly News Recap. GUESTS: Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times Carrie Shepherd, lead p...

A Halloween night mass shooting in East Garfield Park leaves 14 shot, including three children. Illinois State Board of Elections warns of a text message misinformation campaign. And a big name seems poised to jump into the mayor’s race. Reset goes behind those headlines and more in our Weekly News Recap. GUESTS: Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times Carrie Shepherd, lead p...

Take a closer look at your Halloween Candy. Notice anything? Many of them were probably made in Chicago! Reset talks though the city’s history with sweet treats. GUEST: Leslie Goddard, historian and author of Chicago’s Sweet Candy History

The latest jobs report out Friday shows the U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs. This comes as the Federal Reserve bumped interest rates up again this week, in an aggressive attempt to curb inflation. But repeated rate hikes so far have yielded little progress. So how can inflation be tamped down, and can it be done without weakening the job market? Reset checks in with an economic expert to find out...

The ever-growing politicization of abortion has reached new heights since the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Reset observes the development of this issue towards the upcoming election with community voices and bioethics experts. GUEST: Qudsiyyah Shariyf, Chicago Abortion Fund Deputy Director Katie Watson, Northwestern University bioethicist, author of Scarlet A

The Black Harvest Film Festival features films that explore Black, African American, and diasporic experiences. Reset speaks with two of the organizers of the festival about some of their favorite films that will be featured. GUEST: Rebecca Fons, Director of Programming the Gene Siskel Film Center, Rita Coburn, CEO of RCW Productions and director of the film Mariane Anderson: The World in Her Hand...

According to the University of Illinois Extension, food waste – the leftovers or veggies you didn’t get around to eating – make up 37% of what’s in Cook County’s landfill. This is a problem because food emits methane as it breaks down which contributes to a warming climate. Reset talks about efforts to reduce food waste, and fun events around town this weekend to divert your jack o’ lantern from a...

A patient at Northwestern Medicine’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is expected to go home this week after receiving the state’s first heart donated after circulatory death or DCD. Reset learns more about how this technology could help heart transplant patients in and around Chicago. GUEST: Dr. Jane Wilcox, chief of heart failure at Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute

Illinois is one of sixteen states where those convicted of a felony automatically have their right to vote restored upon release from prison. But many of those who are formerly incarcerated don’t realize they have the right to vote. Reset speaks with an organizer who is working to empower the formerly incarcerated to know and express their rights. GUESTS: Greg Chambers, policy organizer for Live F...

For decades chemical relaxers have been central to the hair management regime of many Black women. Recently, court cases and ongoing studies have challenged that these same chemical relaxers are linked to cancer. Reset convenes a panel of health, community, and cultural voices on this means for Black Hair. GUESTS: Arionne Nettles, journalist, lecturer at Northwestern University Mary Mitchell, Chic...

You might think in a city as big as Chicago finding a Spanish class would be a cinch, but a Reset listener called in after struggling to find the right spot. For our ongoing series, “Reset: Lost and Found,” we located a Spanish language class in the city. GUEST: Chris Bentley, owner of Spanish Studio

How do you decipher fact from fiction? That’s something on a lot of our minds when we scroll through social media, but what do we do when we’re sent fake newspapers? Reset talks about recent reports of ring-wing campaign mailers disguised as newspapers ahead of the Illinois General Election and the importance of media literacy. GUESTS: David Folkenflik, NPR media correspondent Dan Mihalopoulos, go...

A recent report says tech companies are misusing their power to shape public discourse ahead of this year’s election Reset hears why tech giants weren’t prepared for the slew of misinformation last election cycle and what they’re doing differently this time around. GUEST: Naomi Nix, staff writer focusing on social media for the Washington Post

If you’re not going to fight for your community, then who is? Residents of the Southeast Side came together when a car-shredding facility built their factory in their neighborhood. But with General Iron behind them, what more needs to change for the community? Reset discusses the work of two Southeast Side community members to improve the lives of their neighbors. GUESTS: Gina Ramirez, mother livi...

The recent attack of Paul Pelosi has once again put a spotlight on rising political violence. It’s just one of numerous examples of threats and attacks, particularly by far-right groups, that have occurred in the wake of form er President Donald Trump’s presidency. Reset speaks with historian Kathleen Belew about why we’re seeing this rise and violence and how it might affect the election just one...

The Hideout — the intimate music and comedy club on Chicago’s North Side — is closing for the rest of the year. This comes after a former employee accused the venue of having a toxic work environment. The Hideout will close early next week with plans to reopen in 2023 under “new leadership,” according to a statement from the Hideout’s owners. Reset gets an update on what this means for fans of the...

Fourteen people, including three children, were shot on Halloween night in East Garfield Park. Victims ranged in age from 56 to just 3 years old. In a press conference outside of Stroger hospital Monday night, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said the drive-by shooting took all of three seconds, with the shooter or shooters aiming randomly in the crowd of a vigil. Reset hears from a nonpr...

Writing a book is hard enough, but how do you get anyone to actually read it? We asked this question of Jessamine Chan, whose breakout novel The School For Good Mothers became a best-seller after coming out in January 2022. We were also joined by the journalist who chronicled Chan’s experience for The New York Times. GUEST: Jessamine Chan, author of The School For Good Mothers Kate Dwyer, freelanc...

An 8-month pregnant Austin woman is claiming self defense after stabbing and killing the abusive father of her unborn child. Her bail is set at $2 million, begging the question: Why so high after she’s claimed a string of violent encounters with that man? Reset learns what this case can tell us about what kinds of self-defense are allowed and how domestic violence is perceived and treated by the l...

Jordan Peele teamed up with Henry Selick for a stop-motion film featuring characters of color in refreshing roles. Reset digs into this unique and spooky partnership of a movie. GUESTS: Arionne Nettles, journalist, lecturer at Northwestern University Jamie Howard, host of horror podcast, Bloody Broads

In an effort to expand bike transit to the South and West sides, the Chicago bike shop Working Bikes partnered with Divvy to train future bike mechanics. The program pays a weekly stipend and could lead to employment at Divvy. Reset speaks with the instructor for the program and one of her former students to learn more. GUESTS: Xail Hernandez, repair manager at Working Bikes Eli Jackson, graduate...

The Supreme Court heard two cases that could determine whether colleges and universities are allowed to consider race as one of many factors in the admissions process. Reset discusses the cases, what we learned from Monday’s oral arguments and what local college students have to say about affirmative action. GUESTS: Steven Schwinn, professor of law, University of Illinois Chicago Law School; co-ed...

The Supreme Court heard two cases that could determine whether colleges and universities are allowed to consider race as one of many factors in the admissions process. Reset discusses those cases and what local college students have to say about affirmative action. GUEST: Nereida Moreno, WBEZ education reporter

Andy Robledo has been supplying Chicago’s homeless with high-end tents for around a year, though those tents may face removal by the city. Reset finds out more about Robledo’s efforts and what the city’s threats mean for the city’s unhoused. GUEST: Andy Robledo, Chicagoan providing tents to the city’s homeless camps