In the Loop (Segments)

It’s high times for the winners of Illinois’ recent marijuana license lottery. A former TV anchor and state senator scored big, but did social equity applicants come out ahead? Reset talks to a social equity marijuana license winner.

Take a trip to this Chicago suburb, where, during the 1950s, even modest and middle-class homes showed off the bravado of modern style.

Reset checks in with two people deeply involved in the project about the choice to highlight birds, and what they hope the golf course will bring to the community.

Jedidiah Brown left Chicago in 2019 to focus on his mental health. Now, he’s walking home from Atlanta to fight gun violence and poverty. Reset checks in with Brown two days into a 700-mile, 1.5-million step journey that is expected to take him two to three months to complete.

As the Delta variant continues to spread and send more Americans to the hospital, Reset turns to Dr. Mia Taormina for the latest public health guidance on the virus, the variants and vaccinations

Economist and best-selling author Emily Oster says running your household like a business could generate major dividends for your family.

A prominent church is going through a reckoning that challenges it’s cultural practices of piety and shame. Reset checks in with WBEZ reporters who first covered the story.

Restaurants, bars and employers are requiring vaccinations as daily COVID cases top 3,000. Plus, former Illinois Governor and convicted felon Rod Blagojevich files a lawsuit challenging the ban on his right to run for office again.

From cupcakes to BLTs, the Daley Plaza Food Truck Fest will offer a spread of local food each Friday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. through Oct. 15. Reset talks to a food truck owner serving the fest this year.

Reset takes a look at Chicago’s Community Safety Coordination Center — a new initiative Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Thursday — and how the city plans to use the new hub to combat violence in Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Some venues are implementing stricter COVID protocols as the Delta variant continues to surge across the U.S.

In a public letter, a group of 60 workers at the Art Institute of Chicago announced plans to unionize. Reset talks to a museum employee and a spokesperson for the regional council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). GUESTS: Anders Lindall, AFSCME Council 31 spokesperson Anna Feuer, acquisitions and collections manager at Art Institute of Chicago Ryerson an...

Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust highlights the little known story of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution to Shanghai, China. The exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum features 22 large-scale photographs by the late American Jewish photographer Arthur Rothstein. The photos provide a window into the lives of refugees who found tolerance and a temporary home during the turbulent...

The Delta variant surge leaves restaurants and bars between a rock and a hard place: Keep going as usual and risk infecting customers and staff, or bring back restrictions and lose business. Reset checks in with a business owner to see how they’re handling a touch-and-go reopening process.

The startup partners with businesses to plan events for Black creatives and professionals, including concerts, networking events and more.

New legislation on Capitol Hill could extend online privacy protections to kids and teens.

Chicago is reporting an average of 243 coronavirus cases per day as the Delta variant continues spreading across the U.S.

Pandemic unemployment benefits end after Labor Day. Will that signal the end of the American worker having the upper hand in a tight labor market?

Education innovator and former Chicagoan Manish Jain calls, “[t]he modern factory-schooling education system...one of the greatest crimes against humanity.” Reset asks Jain, co-founder of Swaraj University in Udaipur, India why he believes we must “hack” our education system.

At one time Pembroke Township in Kankakee County, Illinois was the largest Black farming community in the northern United States. Over environmental concerns and opposition by local Black farmers, a natural gas pipeline with large political backing is moving closer to reality. Farmers and political supporters claim the pipeline “threatens to replace the last community of African American farmers i...

Employers from Disney and Google to the federal government are adopting get-tough policies and vaccine mandates as the Delta variant continues to drive up COVID cases in the U.S. New rules for the workplace are a response to a pandemic that is again getting worse, but they’re also sparking confusion for some employees about what their rights are. Reset checks in with two employment attorneys to an...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed a bill to establish school board elections in Chicago for the first time in the city’s history. Reset checks in with WBEZ’s education desk for the details.

Republicans have passed dozens of bills since the beginning of the year that walk back voting rights. Now, Democrats are rallying behind legislation that would prevent further voter suppression. Reset checks in with an Illinois congressman to discuss the proposed For the People Act.

More than 40 million people rely on the Great Lakes for drinking water, but the supply is increasingly filled with microplastics. Reset asks how the tiny particles affect our health and environment.

Vocalo’s Jill Hopkins joins Reset for a trip down memory lane as MTV turns 40. We also open the phones to hear from listeners about their favorite music videos and memories of the music channel.