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Illinois lawmakers hold a one day session in Springfield where they redraw legislative maps, charge forward with changing energy policy and reject an ethics bill. Reset goes behind the headlines of the week’s news.

In Part Three of our collaboration with The Trace, Reset continues exploring what resources survivors of gun violence in Chicago need, and what recovery looks like without it. In this interview, we turn to experts on the front lines of providing long-term support and wraparound services to survivors. GUESTS: Eddie Bocanegra, senior director of READI Chicago Dr. Tanya Zakrison, trauma surgeon at UChicago Medicine

In Part Two of our collaboration with The Trace, Reset continues exploring the stories of survivors of gun violence in Chicago — what resources they need, and what recovery looks like without it. In this interview, residents Les Jenkins and Natalie Manning share what their roads to recovery have looked like, and what resources they could have used from the city.

Of every six people shot in Chicago, five survive. But while much of the attention from the media, law enforcement, city leaders and the public is on homicides, there is a hidden crisis across the city: survivors face physical, psychological and emotional recovery with little to know help. In Part One (of three) of our collaboration with the nonprofit newsroom The Trace, Reset learns the stories of survivors of gun violence in Chicago: what resources they need, and what recovery looks like without it. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast. And please give us a rating to help other listeners find us. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset

At Sullivan High School on Chicago’s North Side, more than 40 languages are spoken and students hail from over 50 countries. As world events force residents to leave their home countries and flee to America for safety, the school’s population demographics tend to change. Journalist and author Elly Fishman joins ‘Reset’ to discuss what makes Sullivan High so special as she documents in her new book, ‘Refugee High: Coming Of Age In America.’

Governor JB Pritzker reinstates the mask mandate indoors while Chicago’s police union pushes back on Mayor Lori Lightfoot requiring COVID vaccines of city employees. Reset goes behind the week’s headlines on the Weekly News Recap.

Education innovator and former Chicagoan Manish Jain calls, “[t]he modern factory-schooling education system…one of the greatest crimes against humanity.” Reset asks Jain, co-founder of Swaraj University in Udaipur, India why he believes we must “hack” our education system.