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Reset discusses why Europe is experiencing record-setting heat and how Chicago’s new 10-year plan looks to address rising temperatures with Reset Sustainability Contributor Karen Weigert, Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford and Chicago Chief Sustainability Officer Angela Tovar.

Reset gets tips for finding a love connection offline with freelance writer Amanda Chatel and Chicago dating experts Bela Gandhi and Anita Chlipala.

Chicago Public Schools has full-time librarians at only about 20% of its schools, and students of color are hit the hardest by this shortage. Reset learns more about this issue with Chicago Sun-Times education reporter Nader Issa and two CPS librarians who were recently laid off.

Three Chicago police officers have died by suicide in July. Reset discusses what can be done to address mental health challenges facing the Chicago Police Department with Alexa James, a former CPD mental health adviser. Plus, we get the latest on the new 988 Crisis and Suicide Lifeline with Philip Martinez of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Illinois.

So far this year, there have been nearly 350 homicides and over 1,000 shootings in Chicago. Now, many anti-violence groups throughout the city are getting federal COVID relief money to ramp up their efforts. Reset learns more from WBEZ criminal justice reporter Patrick Smith.

Pharmacists in some states with abortion bans are reportedly refusing to fill prescriptions for methotrexate because it can be used to end a pregnancy. Reset discusses why access to methotrexate and other drugs could become an issue of sex discrimination in post-Roe America with Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser and Dr. Cuoghi Edens with the University of Chicago Medicine.

If you’re looking for an excuse to get out on the water this summer, the Shedd Aquarium wants to float an idea by you: kayaking for conservation on the Chicago River. Reset dives deep into the program with Jaclyn Wegner, the aquarium’s director of conservation action.

Aldermen debate ethics reforms in City Council, Illinois prepares for increased demand in abortions from women in neighboring states, and the Chicago Cubs are getting sued. Reset takes a deep dive into these stories and more in the Weekly News Recap.

A new investigation shows 6 out of 10 Illinoisans get their drinking water from a facility where forever chemicals have been found. Reset talks to Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne for more details.

Surging costs for food, gasoline and rent played the biggest role in pushing inflation to a new 40-year high. Reset digs into the latest numbers with NPR’s Scott Horsley, and hears from Chicago restaurant owners about how rising prices are affecting their businesses.

Reset’s live broadcast at the Shedd Aquarium got truly wild with a green-winged macaw, a red-footed tortoise, and animal care specialists Katie Majerowsk and Charlie Jacobsma.

Reset sits down with Cook County ethnobotanist Adam Kessel to learn about Indigenous conservation techniques and native plants in the Chicago area.

More than 100 million Americans are in medical debt, according to a new investigation by Kaiser Health News and NPR. Reset learns more about what’s driving America’s medical debt crisis with lead investigator Noam Levey.

A new three-part PBS docuseries follows a Midwest couple as they embark on a cross-country road trip to explore Islam’s rich history in the U.S. Reset talks to Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins about their experience on The Great Muslim American Road Trip.

As BA.5 becomes the dominant COVID-19 strain in much of the country, Reset checks in with an expert to find out what precautions we should be taking. GUEST: Hannah Barbian, virologist at Rush University Medical Center

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on abortion access Friday, two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Reset discusses what the federal action means for reproductive rights with University of Chicago’s Lee Hasselbacher, Brigid Leahy with Planned Parenthood Illinois Action and Diana Parker-Kafka of Midwest Access Coalition.

Phoenix Mercury star center Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug charges in Russia and faces up to 10 years in prison. But the U.S. says she’s been wrongfully detained, leading many of her supporters to wonder why officials haven’t done more to intervene. GUESTS: Julie DiCaro, writer and editor at Deadspin Cheryl Raye-Stout, WBEZ sports contributor

A devastating Fourth of July massacre in Highland Park, a prison sentence for former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson and NASCAR racing through Chicago streets. Reset takes a deep dive into these stories and more in the Weekly News Recap with The Washington Post’s Kim Bellware, ProPublica’s Mick Dumke and WGN-TV reporter Mike Lowe.

Teen superhero Kamala Khan has taken the small screen by storm in the new Disney+ show, Ms. Marvel. But she’s been around in comics, including a new graphic novel collecting the first five issues of Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit. Reset talks to the first South Asian woman to write Kamala Khan in the comics.

Reset talks to sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh about his new book The Tomorrow Game, which follows the story of two rival teens on the Chicago’s South Side and a community that’s trying to save them from gun violence.

As we learn the identities of the seven people killed in the Highland Park parade shooting, their loved ones are speaking out about how they want them to be remembered. Reset hears from WBEZ education reporter Susie An, who talked to the friends, families and neighbors of those who were killed or injured in the deadly attack.

A shooter opened fire on a July 4th parade route in suburban Chicago, killing seven people and injuring dozens more. Reset checks in with WBEZ education reporter Sarah Karp and Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet, who was at the parade, for the latest on how the community is responding.

Dr. Tali Raviv, associate director of the Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, explains how to discuss the tragic mass shooting in Highland Park, Ill., with children of different ages.

The Highland Park shooter was arrested “peacefully” despite being heavily armed. Meanwhile, an unarmed Black man in Akron, Ohio, was shot 60 times and killed by officers. Reset checks in with Brookings Institution senior fellow Rashawn Ray, who says the two stories help illustrate the fact that Black people are many times more likely than white people to be killed by police in the U.S.

Reset goes behind the week’s headlines, in Chicago and beyond with John Byrne, senior political reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Brandon Pope, reporter and anchor at CW 26 and Heather Cherone, Chicago politics reporter for WTTW News.