With this yo-yo weather, what do your gardens need? Reset gets more info from director Urban Farm Center at College of Lake County Eliza Fournier and takes listeners’ questions.
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Congresswoman Lauren Underwood opts out of Senate race. Lincoln artifacts auctioned off for millions. South suburban Dolton plans to acquire Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home. Reset breaks down these stories and much more with a panel of journalists. This week’s panel includes WTTW News correspondent Nick Blumberg, WBEZ data projects editor Alden Loury and Chicago Sun-Times investigative reporter Bob Herguth.
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In 1975, the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. Afterward, a large wave of Vietnamese refugees fled the country and arrived in neighboring countries like Cambodia and the Philippines – and the United States as well. Many found community on the coasts like in California or New York, but others created enclaves in the Midwest cities like Chicago.
To mark 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War and in honor of Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander Month, Reset learns more about the history of the Vietnamese community in Chicago.
Panel:
Vân Huynh, executive director of the Vietnamese Association of Illinois
Tam Nguyen, employment counselor at Chinese Mutual Aid Association
Ngoan Le, the first executive director, Vietnamese Association of Illinois; former chief of the Illinois Bureau of Refugee and Immigrant Services.
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Look out! Here comes Spider-Man – along with his villains and other well-known Spider-Verse characters. It’s all part of a new immersive exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. It brings together a collection of artifacts, iconic moments from every era, and wall-to-wall artwork from Spider-Man’s first comic book appearance in 1962.
Reset learns more about the superhero’s evolution and what the exhibition offers with Voula Saridakis, MSI’s head curator.
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Millions of people across the country rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP for food assistance, including nearly 2 million people in Illinois. The program is fully funded by the federal government with states helping pay for administrative costs. But that could change. House Republicans are proposing an estimated $300 billion in cuts to SNAP spending and looking to states to fill the financial gaps. On top of that, they’re also looking to make working requirements for benefits steeper. Reset talks about what the impact of SNAP cuts could mean for Chicagoans with director of communications at the Greater Chicago Food Depository Man-Yee Lee mother and SNAP recipient Veronica Cox.
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If you’ve had your car towed in Chicago, there’s a decent chance you had to journey down to Lower Lower Wacker Drive — likely not in the best of moods — to open your wallet and recollect your vehicle.
“It's supposed to be a happy process,” said Michael Lacoco, the deputy commissioner of the city’s bureau of traffic services.
In our last episode, we answered some of your many questions about Lower Wacker Drive, a.k.a. Chicago’s basement. Today, we try to demystify a notorious Chicago landmark within: the Central Auto Pound.
Lacoco is a 33-year veteran of this department, the perfect person to help us on this journey. He explains why you shouldn’t try to steal your own car from the lot, why that white inventory number they draw on your window is so hard to wash off, and what you can do if you think you were wrongfully towed.
Illinois lawmakers have until the end of the month to hammer out a budget deal. Public transit agencies in the Chicago area say they’re facing a $770 million shortfall. Reset discusses what’s at stake for transit riders with Audrey Wennink of the Metropolitan Planning Council and Justin Marlowe of UChicago’s Harris School of
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Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism is a bigger problem for CPS high school students, but the district and schools are working to address the issue. Reset explores what’s driving this trend and what’s being done to solve the problem with WBEZ education reporter Sarah Karp.
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SCOTUS is set to rule on birthright citizenship after Trump’s executive order on January 20. How has the right evolved in the United States? Reset dives into the history of birthright citizenship and its resonances today with associate professor of history at Occidental College Jane Hong.
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