Author: WBEZ Chicago

Reset talks to Chicago actor and producer Bashir Salahuddin about what it was like to play alongside Tom Cruise in the new film Top Gun: Maverick, and his big plans for the third season of HBO’s South Side. 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

Mayor Lightfoot kicks off her reelection campaign. Plus, a new Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll reveals a shift in the Republican race for governor. Reset goes behind the headlines in the Weekly News Recap.

Half a million Chicagoans live in food deserts. We meet four local leaders working to solve that problem.

When children are released from the Cook County Juvenile Center on Chicago’s Near West Side, they’re expected to be picked up by a guardian. But many kids under the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services are not assigned housing and are forced to wait in jail until a guardian arrives — sometimes for months. Reset gets the latest from the WBEZ criminal justice reporter Patrick Smith, who uncovered the story. 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

The half-millimeter-long robotic crab joins a menagerie of tiny robots inspired by the natural world. Reset checks in with Northwestern University professor John Rogers about the tiny crab and other creations his team developed that could soon help monitor air quality, track disease outbreaks and even clear clogged arteries within our bodies. 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

Illinois has the eighth strictest gun laws in the nation, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Reset talks with reporters and an expert to understand what separates Illinois from states with even stricter gun laws. 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

Artists owned and operated, the founders of local record label, Sooper Records, join Reset to explain how the business started, their own beginnings in Chicago’s music scene and share some of the music from artists on their label. 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

An ethics bill stalls in Chicago’s City Council. Meanwhile, the mayoral race heats up with two new candidates.Plus, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul files the state’s first-ever hate crime lawsuit. Reset goes behind the week’s headlines in the Weekly News Recap with Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Ray Long, Alex Nitkin with the The Daily Line and WBEZ investigative reporter Dan Mihalopoulos. 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