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Sasheer Zamata has kept busy since leaving SNL. She’s starred in Hulu’s hit show Woke and ABC’s Home Economics, and has also produced stand-up comedy specials. Reset checks in with the comedian as she embarks on a nationwide comedy tour to talk about how her childhood impacted her performance trajectory and what she’d like to say to fans who ask her why she doesn’t do impressions. 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

Chicago had 178 homicides during the first four months of this year, according to a report from the city’s police department. Reset discusses how the data compares with previous years and gets the latest on CPD’s plan for addressing homicides and violent crime as we head into the summer. Plus, last week on Holocaust Remembrance Day, anti-Semitic leaflets were left outside homes in north suburban Highland Park and Glencoe. Experts say it’s not an isolated incident. Reset learns more about how officials are responding and digs into a new report that shows anti-Semitic incidents reached historic levels in 2021. 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

A leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion suggests the nation’s highest court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade. Reset discusses what this could mean for reproductive rights in the U.S. and if Congress could take action in the absence of Roe with Amanda Becker, Washington correspondent for The 19th. Plus, we hear from Gov. JB Pritzker about the future of abortion access in Illinois. 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.

Reset explores key races ahead of Illinois’ primary election on June 28. GUESTS: Heather Cherone, political reporter for WTTW News Hannah Meisel, NPR Illinois government and politics editor 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

Parents and teachers protest Chicago Public Schools budget cuts and the head of the Chicago Reader steps down amid employee protests. Reset goes behind the headlines in the Weekly News Recap. GUESTS: Alex Nitkin, City Hall reporter for The Daily Line Patrick Smith, WBEZ criminal justice reporter

Trees and wetlands sequester carbon, suck up storm water, provide relief from extreme heat and help purify the air. A recent IPCC report found that the restoration of both are important in responding to climate change. Ahead of Arbor Day, we learn about efforts in the Chicago area to create more wetlands, plant more oak trees and create tree canopy in areas that have low canopy coverage. GUEST: Lydia Scott, director Chicago Region Trees Initiative, The Morton Arboretum, Paul Botts, executive director The Wetlands Initiative Karen Weigert, director of Loyola University’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility, Doug Widener, executive director of the Lincoln Park Conservancy, Lauren Umek, urban ecologist and project manager for the Chicago Park District

This week, two Illinois Starbucks coffee shops won union elections, Chicago Reader staff’s protesting forced one of the co-owners to step down, and University of Illinois Chicago graduate students bargained for higher wages. Guests: Katie Prout, staff writer, The Chicago Reader and member of the union’s bargaining committee, Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel, audience engagement manager, The Chicago Reader and union member, Michael Mueller, shift lead at Starbucks in Cary, Illinois, Matt DeVilbiss teaching assistant, PhD candidate, organizing chair of UIC’s graduate employees organization, Bob Bruno, director of the labor education program at the School for Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

New data from the Chicago Department of Public Health shows that Chicagoans’ life expectancy dropped almost two years on average in 2020. For Black and Latinx residents, life expectancy decreased by an even greater margin. Reset learns more about Chicago’s plans to address the gap from Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady, ACCESS Community Health Network CEO Donna Thompson and Ayesha Jaco, executive director at West Side United.

Nearly 1 in 6 restaurants around the country have closed during the pandemic, according to industry estimates. Those left standing are faced with rising inflation and supply chain issues. So second-generation restaurateurs in the Chicago area say they’re leaning on their parents’ advice and legacy to weather the economic storm, and taking the moment to consider reinvention. Guests: Lori Seay co-owner of Soul Veg City restaurant, Arel Israel, co-owner of Soul Veg City restaurant Producer: Stephanie Kim, Andrew Meriwether Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Reset goes behind the headlines of the week’s top stories, from the chaos around mask guidance on air and train travel, to the fight to save Chicago’s “free and freaky” alt weekly. GUEST: Brandon Pope, reporter/anchor at CW 26, Amanda Vinicky, WTTW political correspondent