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Illinois politicians press the federal government to grant work permits to migrants and questions remain about the White Sox game shooting as the team announces its new General Manager. Reset breaks down these stories and more with Alice Yin, politics reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Patrick Smith, criminal justice reporter at WBEZ, and Brandis Friedman, WTTW co-anchor and correspondent and host of “Chicago Tonight: Black Voices”.

For the past three summers, the lakefront near Buena Park on the North Side has been home to a popular event: Friday Morning Swim Club. It started with a handful of friends and grew exponentially — nearly 3,000 people participated at its peak this summer. Reset talks with reporter Katie Anthony, and Megan, an attendee, about the popular swim club and what led to its cancellation.

In the latest in our series of Chicago’s Architectural Icons, we learn about the history of the gorgeous Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette from Dennis Rodkin, real estate reporter for Crain’s Chicago Business.

A new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency could strip federal protections from up to 63% of the nation’s wetlands. Reset hears from Paul Botts, executive director of The Wetlands Initiative, and Allyson Chiu, climate reporter for the Washington Post, on what this ruling means for the health of wetland ecosystems and the environment at large.

This year the Chicago Public Library system is celebrating 150 years of service to Chicagoans, and a lot has changed in the last century and a half. With a library card, Chicago residents can stream movies and music, get digital magazine subscriptions, listen to audiobooks, and so much more! Reset turns to a CPL branch manager, Kendall Kidder-Goshorn, to learn tips and tricks to make the most of your library card.

The Chicago City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate gave initial approval for Chicago to buy land to convert a Marine Corps training center into a temporary migrant shelter. We got an update on the groundwork the Johnson administration is laying to create more infrastructure for newly-arriving migrants. We talked to WBEZ politics reporters Mariah Woelfel and Tessa Weinberg.

The health benefits of therapeutic writing have been studied since the 1980s, but a new study from researchers at Boston University found that writing exposure therapy is as effective as other forms of therapy recommended by the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat post traumatic stress disorder. We talked to one of the authors of the study, Denise Sloan, who’s a psychologist and the associate director of the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD, and Professor of Psychiatry at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University.

The Electronic Funds Transfer Act – passed in 1978 – is meant to protect U.S. consumers from being defrauded when they make a transaction via an ATM, debit card or direct deposit or by point-of-sale and phone transactions. But the law makes an exception for wire transfers. And in recent years, wire fraud has exploded as scammers are making use of the loophole. According to the FBI, its Internet Crime Complaint Center received reports of this type of fraud totaling $2.4 billion in losses in 2021. Reset sat down with Stephanie Zimmermann, consumer investigations reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, to learn more.

Starting September 1, Swedish Covenant Hospital in Lincoln Square, Chicago will combine midwives with obstetricians in a single department to care for pregnant people. The move scales back a midwifery program that some patients praise as defining their pregnancy and delivery experience. We talked to two journalists, WBEZ’s Kristen Schorsch & Block Club Chicago’s Kayleigh Padar, to learn more about this shift and how midwives can play a fundamental role in patients’ care experience.

What did you do this summer? If you’re anything like the children of WBEZ staff, you made the most of your time off. From an alpaca farm in Korea to staycations at the local pool, the kids of WBEZ shared the favorite things they did this summer and what they’re looking forward to this school year. We talked to nine-year-olds Auggie and Ethan, eight-year-old Kezzia and four-year-olds Claire and Margot.