In the Loop (Segments)

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...

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.

Bicycling’s been booming during the pandemic. It’s a great alternative to crowded gyms, trains and buses. But as the pandemic winds down, will Chicagoans keep on rolling? Reset gets brought up to speed on biking issues around the Chicago area.

Reset learns what steps have been taken so far and how they fit into the city’s overall economic development strategy.

Reset brings on music writer Leor Galil for the latest on Chicago’s summer festival season.

WBEZ’s Mariah Woelfel breaks down the latest on local masking guidelines.

As part of our Chicago Innovators series, trained architect and developer Tim Anderson shares his vision for what he calls the urbanization of the suburban mall.

Reset brings on Jonathan Peck and Tom Tresser of the Civic Lab to discuss the group’s TIF Illumination project, which helps the public better understand tax increment financing districts in Chicago.

Reset grades Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s first two years in office, and takes a look at what campaign promises she may try to fulfill during the second half of her term.

Reset brings on members from the Black caucus to discuss their endorsement of the police oversight plan.

Increasing diversity has been a positive for Black representation in media and entertainment. But lately, we’re seeing Black pain turned into entertainment in shows about slavery, Jim Crow and urban decay. Reset explores how Black trauma is being turned into popular drama.

In December, Illinois became the first state to extend health coverage to undocumnted seniors. Reset talks with activists and on-the-ground workers who pushed for the legislation and are now implementing the program.

Some critics of tax increment financing in Chicago have called for TIFs to be abolished, while others have called for more robust reforms than recent mayoral administrations have delivered. Reset checks in with three TIF critics for their creative ideas for re-imagining one of the city’s key economic development tools.

Chicago’s tax increment financing districts are meant to lift up communities. What are the benefits and drawbacks? And what needs to change? Reset checks in with an expert on public finance and municipal economic development.

Global vaccination push slows as drug companies slow to relax their grip on intellectual properties

Reset brings on music writer Leor Galil for the latest on Chicago’s summer festival season.

A new WBEZ investigation shows that homes owned by Black people in Chicago are appraised much lower than comparable homes owned by white people. WBEZ’s Natalie Moore walks us through her reporting on the topic.