Category: 4-FrequentNewsStreams

Coronavirus cases continue rising across Chicago and Illinois. A Loretto Hospital executive at the center of a vaccine scandal resigns. Plus, Evanston becomes the first city in the U.S. to offer Black residents reparations. Reset breaks down the week’s top stories in our Weekly News Recap with host Sasha-Ann Simons. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.

In the era of COVID-19 and deep inequality, local governments say community engagement has become essential to delivering equitable outcomes. Reset talks with Chicago and suburban elected officials on how they’ve changed the way they seek residents input before making decisions. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.

U.S. Landfills are at 85 percent filled, and that is a big problem because we’ll continue to keep on making trash, but won’t have anywhere to put it. Today on Reset, we have an innovator who is breaking down and recycling our waste using an unlikely method-mushrooms! For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.

While anti-Asian attacks and violence have increased at an alarming rate in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts and advocates say these attacks aren’t new. Reset talks to a historian and two activists about the long history of systemic racism and discrimination against Asian communities in the U.S. and ways to support Asian American and Pacific Islander communities moving forward.

Cook County residents haven’t had to worry about it for a year, but the reprieve is over: jury duty is back. After a long delay due to the pandemic, jury trials are starting back up today in Cook County. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx joined Reset for more on what her office will be focused on — from violent crimes to carjackings — as jury trials resume. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.

Reset brings on an infectious disease expert for our weekly check-in to provide clarity and answers to your questions, comments and concerns about COVID-19. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.

Gov. JB Pritzker unveils his plans to reopen the state and expand vaccine eligibility. Illinois lawmakers begin the redistricting process. Plus, a shooting spree in Atlanta sparks fear and anger in Chicago-area Asian communities. Reset breaks down the biggest news of the week in our Weekly News Recap with host Sasha-Ann Simons. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.

The Atlanta shootings on Tuesday have sparked fear and anger in Chicago-area Asian communities. Six of the eight victims were of Asian descent — a reminder of the ongoing wave of anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination across the country. Over the last year, nearly 3,800 incidents of racism and violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the U.S. have been reported to Stop AAPI Hate. Reset talks to WBEZ’s Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, a local official and a community leader about the rise in anti-Asian attacks and ways to move forward. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset

A new program from the Illinois Housing Development Authority is looking to help those Illinoisans most burdened by student loan debt in an effort to boost homeownership in the state. We talk to the head of the IHDA about the program and why this is a priority. 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

Over the years, Mexican-American poet and best-selling author Sandra Cisneros has earned many awards and accolades. Now, she has a new honor to add to the list: the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for lifetime achievement. Reset talked to Cisneros about receiving the award, her relationship with Chicago and her love for the city's writing community For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset