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The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new details about its plan to roll out vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. Reset checks in with a White House reporter and pediatrician for the details.

Illinois’ population declined for the first time ever in the 2020 census, resulting in the loss of a U.S. House seat. Reset examines the new Congressional map drawn up by Illinois Democrats.

The Chicago Sky on Sunday won its first championship and the city’s first basketball title in 20 years. Reset checks in with Cheryl Raye-Stout for the details.

Chicago historian and civil rights activist Timuel Black dies at age 102. Park District CEO Mike Kelly resigns over the city’s lifeguard abuse scandal. Plus, first lady Jill Biden visits Chicago to honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Reset goes beyond the headlines in our Weekly News Recap with host Sasha-Ann Simons.

Chicago civil rights activist and cultural icon Timuel Black died Tuesday at age 102. He was a historian, teacher, storyteller and music-lover who dedicated his life to ending segregation, voter disenfranchisement and discrimination. Reset pays tribute to the legend and speaks with several people who knew and worked with him.

As Joe Ferguson wraps up his final days as Chicago’s inspector general, he releases two new audits sounding the alarms on fire department response times and City Council finances. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast. And please give us a rating, it helps other listeners find us. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset

Reset talks with an epidemiologist whose research powered a pending Congressional bill. The “Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021” links poor maternal health outcomes for Black women to climate change and environmental racism

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from their homes, uprooted from the lives they built and stripped of their civil rights. The aftermath of Japanese American incarceration led to a national movement for reparations. Reset learns about a new multimedia experience about the Japanese American redress movement in Chicago and the lessons their story holds for communities seeking justice and healing today.

President Joe Biden visits Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot and Kim Foxx go head to head, and shots are fired between Illinois billionaires. Also: an actor buys Bozo. Reset goes behind the week’s headlines on the Weekly News Recap.

As aldermen work on new ward boundaries, the Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission has published its own independent map. Reset talks with two of the commissioners on why they believe City Council should vote on their independent “People’s Map,” which includes fewer gerrymandered wards and attempts to give residents fair and equitable representation in city government.