Could postal carrier schedule changes deliver worse service and delayed mail to the Chicago region? Reset checks in with the president of the Chicago letter carriers union and takes listener calls.
Veteran Chicago journalist Carol Marin joins Reset to share her memories of 9/11 and lessons she wants to pass on to the next generation of journalists.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul opens an investigation into the Joliet Police Department, and Chicago Police move closer to finalizing a new 8-year contract.
Reset goes behind the week’s headlines on the Weekly News Recap.
From COVID-19 to climate change and gun violence, kids have a lot on their minds these days. A new Illinois law will soon let them take off five mental health days a year.
Hurricane Ida’s flooding caused massive death and destruction in the northeast, leaving communities across the country questioning how prepared they are for extreme weather.
Reset examines how prepared Chicago is for climate change.
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.
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