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Reset sits down with a financial expert and author Christine Benz to answer listeners’ burning personal finance questions about spending, saving and investing.

Chicago’s Black cultural hub receives a national landmark recognition that will help it preserve its historical sites. Reset chats with Bernard Turner, executive director of the Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Commission and with WBEZ editor Alden Loury about the designation and what it could mean for the neighborhood.

TikTok has a reputation for its seemingly bottomless well of dance trends and lip sync videos, but there are as many sides of TikTok as there are users. It has quickly become a forum for cultural conversation, and many Gen Z users even get their news from the app. Reset hears from TikTokkers journalists, Chris Vazquez and Jack Corbett, about building an audience, keeping people from scrolling away, and what makes the app tick.

Reset dives into the biggests stories and behind the headlines from local stories with Brandon Pope, reporter and anchor at CW 26, Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune state government reporter and Alex Nitkin, Better Government Association reporter.

Maybe you binged an entire season of a show in a weekend or watched an epic like Titanic, but compared to the films in the new series at the Gene Siskel Film Center, those seem like a TikTok video. In its ‘Settle In’ series, viewers watch what can only be described as marathon films that test their endurance. Reset learns about the series and the history of these films with programming director Rebecca Fons.

Global action and a commitment by nation’s leaders to stop producing a harmful chemical used in aerosols and refrigerators has shifted the course of this looming problem. Reset learns more about how the world changed course with climate scientist Kristina Dahl and ozone layer expert Stephen Montzka.

In another episode of What’s that Building, Reset gets a glimpse of Chicago's rise and fall as a behemoth in the newspaper industry. Reset talks to journalist Dennis Rodin about the Tribune Freedom Center and what will soon take its place along the Chicago River.

Chicago beat L.A, Houston and other traffic-clogged cities to be named the city with the worst congestion and traffic for the second year in a row, according to a report from the mobility analytics firm, Inrix. Reset speaks with transit expert Joseph Schwieterman about why and how this affects people's lives.

Another city official is making it a priority to protect against the health risks of e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine products. Reset hears from Ald. Napolitano about his new ordinance and from Dr. Maria Rahmander of Lurie Children’s Hospital about the health risks associated with teen e-cig use.

A bill granting Chicago principals and assistant principals collective bargaining rights was approved by the Illinois Senate late last week. It now heads to Governor JB Pritzker’s desk for final approval. Reset learns more from WBEZ education reporter Sarah Karp and State Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas.