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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chicago had its most violent Memorial Day weekend in five years. However, new data from the Chicago Police Department show shootings this year are below the pace of 2021 and 2020.
Reset gets the latest on these trends, and what residents are doing to keep communities safe. Plus, we’ll look at how Illinois schools are preparing students and teachers for an active shooter.
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Earlier this year, Illinois First Congressional District Representative Bobby Rush announced that he will not be seeking reelection after holding the position for nearly three decades. Now, there are 21 candidates vying for his seat.
Reset learns more about some of the candidates and what’s at stake for the voters of the first district.
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The Second Amendment is only 27 words long, but the text has been fiercely debated for centuries. Debate focused on the meaning of militias and who belonged to them until the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that private citizens have a right to handguns in the home for protection.
Reset learns more about the history of the Second Amendment and how it’s interpreted today.
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