OK, bakers! Get your starters ready.
Cooler weather calls for heartier meals that aren’t complete without breads of all kinds, shapes and sizes. (also bonus: it’s Bread Week, GBBO fans!)
Reset checks in with a local James Beard Award-winning baker about his new bread cookbook.
To reduce their carbon footprints, New York and Los Angeles have banned gas-powered stoves and heating in new construction. Chicago is taking a different approach.
A new ordinance requires new homes to be “electric ready.” The city isn’t banning gas appliances in homes, but wants residents to more easily be able to switch to electric ones if they choose. But how can people who can’t afford to buy a new home be part of this transition?
Reset finds out more about electrification, and checks in with an advocate to learn more about these efforts.
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The nearly dozen suits, filed in Lake County, claims the shooting was “predictable and preventable.” They add to the over 100 charges the shooter already faces, which include first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.
Reset get the details and learns how the suit could impact the alleged shooter’s pending criminal case.
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Yes, hackers can spy on some of what you’re doing on your laptop if you’re browsing the web in a coffee shop. But public networks are worlds safer than they were a few years ago.
Reset learns the do’s and don’ts of using public WiFi networks.
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Invest South/West is Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s signature economic development plan.
Reset explores why so few projects appear to be moving forward three years since the mayor announced the program.
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We spoke to learn why people are targeting these books, and what libraries are doing to protect access to challenged titles.
GUEST: Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation
at American Library Association
Commissioner Chris Brown, Chicago Public Library
The city is pushing for 1,000 new housing units to revitalize Lasalle Street. Despite being synonymous with Chicago’s financial services industry, Lasalle Street has a higher vacancy rate than any other area downtown.
Reset talks to a reporter for a breakdown of the city’s goals and plans.
GUEST: Melody Mercado, Block Club Chicago reporter covering the Loop, West Loop, River North and the Gold Coast
Coach K and Coach Knikkie bonded over a love of the sport, and cheer each other on, even when their teams face off, which was another record setting event in Illinois.
Reset sits down with the coaches and learns about what drives and unites them and how they hope to draw positive attention to their schools.
GUEST: Konesha Rhea, Head Varsity Football Coach DuSable Panthers
Jouscelyn Mayfield, Christian Fenger Academy High School
The pandemic has forced many people to rethink their job paths, so Reset talked to three professional coaches about how to take the next step in our careers.
GUESTS: Phoebe Gavin, career and leadership coach and executive director of talent and development at Vox.com
Kate Brooks, board-certified career coach and counselor
Bianca Jeanty, career coach and speaker
Abbott Elementary is back after collecting a few awards at the Emmys. Reset chatted about our initial impression of the start of Season 2 with a TV critic and panel of Abbott fans.
GUEST: Danette Chavez, Editor-in-Chief of Primetimer
Brandon Pope, reporter/anchor at CW 26
Arionne Nettles, journalism lecturer at Northwestern University
