In the Loop (Segments)

If you’re looking for something fun to do on Memorial Day weekend, consider taking a walk around Chicago’s Outerbelt. The 210-mile trail begins and ends at Grant Park, and weaves through some of the loveliest natural areas in and around the city. Reset checks in with the Outerbelt Alliance for hiking tips.

While the massive protests of last summer have subsided, there’s still a lot of work going on behind the scenes in cities and communities across the country. Reset brings on a Chicago activist to reflect on what has and hasn’t changed since George Floyd’s death and the ongoing fight for racial justice.

The Chicago City Council is taking up a number of major ordinances and measures Wednesday, including renaming the iconic outer Lake Shore Drive. WTTW’s Heather Cherone gives Reset a City Council update.

Reset takes listener recommendations on the best things to do and eat as we head into Memorial Day weekend.

Reset learns how Chicago Apprentice Network started and why organizers are pushing local companies to hire more graduates from the City Colleges.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday unveiled her long-awaited civilian police oversight plan, which forms a commission of seven Chicagoans to provide input on CPD organization and leadership.

Reset checks in with the co-founder of The Greenwood Project, a non-profit aimed at helping Black and brown students pursue careers in finance.

One year after George Floyd’s murder, his death has amplified the Black Lives Matter movement around the world and sparked new conversations around policing and racism in schools and workplaces and between family and friends. Reset brings on two guests and opens the phones to listeners to reflect on the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder and how to find healing from “racial battle fatigue.”

As a new crop of graduates start their journey into the post-COVID job market, Reset’s sustainability contributor Karen Weigert and clean energy consultant Elevate discuss the green economy’s future.

A 2019 study from New York University shows Chicago has the widest life expectancy gap of any city in the nation. Residents in largely white and wealthy Streeterville live to 90 years old on average, but Black residents of Englewood, a South Side neighborhood that hasn’t seen much investment, live to be just 60. Reset checks in with an organization working to close the life expectancy gap between...

The Segundo Belvis Ruiz Cultural Center in Hermosa on Chicago’s West Side will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a screening of the documentary on Rita Moreno titled Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It. More details on how to attend the event here. Reset talks to a producer from the documentary about the center’s significance and how it will continue to celebrate culture in Hermo...

A new bill would require Illinois school districts to add media literacy instruction as part of their computer literacy curriculum. Reset checks in with a co-sponsor of the legislation and a media literacy expert for more.

Reset checks in with Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Ally Marotti to discuss how restaurants in the Loop are adapting for post-pandemic life as customers start trickling back to the office.

The federal government’s latest inflation report shows consumer prices jumped 4.2% last month from a year ago. That’s the biggest increase since the financial crisis in 2008. Reset brings on NPR’s Scott Horsley to discuss why prices are rising and opens the phones to listeners

Partisan bickering has erupted in the Illinois General Assembly over a newly drawn legislative map. Other important issues remain unresolved. Two reporters update Reset on what's happening in Springfield.

The post-COVID world will leave many institutions and businesses in American urban centers permanently shuttered. Does this spell the end of the American city as we know it? Famed urban thinker Richard Florida joins Reset to re-imagine what 21st century cities should become to help foster equitable and just societies.

Reset breaks down the week’s top stories in our Weekly News Recap with host Sasha-Ann Simons.

As the culinary industry rebuilds from the turmoil of the COVID pandemic, two new food critics have hit the Chicago scene to help shine a spotlight on local places worth a visit. Reset checks in with the newly named Chicago Tribune food critics to learn more about their plans to diversify the paper’s food coverage.

Reset brings on an infectious disease expert for our weekly check-in to provide clarity and answers to your questions, comments and concerns about COVID-19.

Hedge fund Alden Global Capital on Friday won a shareholder vote to take complete ownership of Tribune Publishing, which includes the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, and other local news outlets. Reset checks in with a media historian and analyst about the future of local news.

COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change are some of humanity's greatest challenges. The Chicago-based nonprofit Genesis at the Crossroads joins Reset to share how it seeks solutions through its focus on global peace building at the nexus of the arts, education, human rights, and social justice.

Twice a month, we bring you our series “What’s That Building” — taking you through Chicago history by way of the pavilions, temples, sky-rises and other structures. Today we’re headed to the main sanctuary of the Loop Synagogue on Clark Street.

Illinois is the 15th state to require public schools to be in person in the fall. Parents hope that children under 12 will be able to get vaccinated before going back to school. Reset brings on WBEZ’s Susie An to let us know what in-person learning could look like in the fall.

Reset brings on a researcher — and opens the phones to listeners — to learn more about how the pandemic is overloading single-parent households and what can be done to support these families.

Reset brings on Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne to discuss the latest on efforts to stop a rebranded metal-scrapping facility from opening in a predominantly Latino neighborhood on the Southeast Side. Southside Recycling, formerly known as Genera Iron, is suing the city for $100 million after Mayor Lori Lighftoot blocked its final permit at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protecti...