WBEZ surveyed CTA riders about their experiences and got thousands for responses. Reset hears from WBEZ’s Cassie Walker Burke and Courtney Kueppers about what riders had to say.
Sankofa Wellness Village will receive $10 million from the Pritzker Traubert Foundation. Reset revisits its conversation with prizewinners Theodore Joseph, Ayesha Jaco and Kemena Brooks about their plans to improve West Garfield Park.
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.
