Curious City - “It’s Not Easy Being Green”: The Decline Of Frogs In Chicago
Frogs have been on the decline in the Chicago area. The health of the frog population tells us a lot about the health of our environment.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Best Practices For Social Media This Election Season
As a divided country braces for election results, we examine how our online actions can have real world consequences with Jill Hopke, associate professor of journalism at DePaul University’s College of Communication and George Scully, assistant clinical professor of business law and business ethics at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How Proposed CPD Cuts Could Impact Police Reform
Under Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget, the Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform would see a 45% cut and vacant positions continuing to go unfilled. Plus, a new Chicago Sun-Times investigation details how CPD’s remaining staff struggle to fill the gaps.
Reset gets the details from Sun-Times assistant criminal justice editor Tom Schuba.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago ER Doc Describes His Medical Mission In Lebanon
In Lebanon, a fifth of the population has been displaced in the process of seeking shelter from Israeli airstrikes. The death toll is nearly 3,000 with more than 13,000 wounded, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health. Meanwhile more than 60 have died from Hezbollah rocket fire in Israel, according to Israeli officials. Reset checks in with Chicago emergency physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad. He recently returned from a medical mission to southern Lebanon.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What A Trump Or Harris Presidency Could Mean For Climate, Environment And Energy
As president, Republican Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord and attempted to slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency. As vice president, Democrat Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, legislation that advances climate action. Reset takes a look at how each might deal with environmental issues and how those decisions could affect Chicagoans with Reset sustainability contributor Karen Weigert.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Warm Human’s Meredith Johnston On Her Fatal Flaw In Latest Album ‘Hamartia’
Hamartia comes from Greek tragedy and refers to a hero or heroine’s fatal flaw.
For Meredith Johnston, it’s self-hatred. This is the focus of her new album Hamartia.
Reset sits down with the singer to talk about the inspiration behind the project and getting a taste of Warm Human’s range from electronic to indie to pop.
GUEST: Meredith Johnston, singer and songwriter, Warm Human
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - HBO’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Will Sing Its Last Song In Season 3
How does one say goodbye to what feels like the utterly perfect television series? Season 3 of HBO’s “Somebody Somewhere,” which just kicked off on Oct. 27, will be the Peabody award-winning comedy-drama’s last hoorah. The show takes viewers to Manhattan, Kansas, where finding your people is possible.
Reset sits down with members of the cast and crew Bridget Everett, Jeff Hiller, Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen to discuss the show’s Midwestern roots, queer communities and navigating adult friendships.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What’s That Building? Ahlgrim Family Funeral Home and Ahlgrim Acres
To find one of the most unusual miniature golf courses in the Chicago area, you arrive at a funeral home in Palatine and then go a little more than six feet under, to the basement. At Ahlgrim Family Funeral Home on Northwest Highway, the main floor is for funerals and downstairs is where the family’s homemade mini golf course called Ahlgrim Acres has been for 60 years. Reset went on a field trip with our architecture sleuth and Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Dennis Rodkin to check it out.
Curious City - “Spooky and salacious:” Do we need to rethink prison tourism?
It’s spooky season, a time when we often visit haunted houses and think about the paranormal. And if you live in the Chicago area, you’ve probably seen billboards and ads for the Old Joliet Haunted Prison. But at one point, it was an actual prison. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, questions about the paranormal can serve as an entry into the historical context of a place. Last episode, we visited the Old Joliet Prison to look into a lister’s question about whether it’s haunted. And that got us thinking about the ethics of “prison tourism.” Is it OK to take a place where people suffered and died and turn it into a site of entertainment? Today, we get into this question and more with Hope Corrigan, who reported on it for The Marshall Project.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Ghost Stories And Chicago History
Reset gears up for Halloween with a deep dive into Chicago history through the lens of the supernatural. Haunted, mysterious Chicago tales live in every corner of the city, and ghost stories can also be history lessons, a unique way to explore and learn.
Reset checks in with Adam Selzer, Chicago historian, tour guide and author of Mysterious Chicago.
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