Pot. Weed. Grass. Doobie. Mary Jane. Whatever you want to call it, marijuana is legal in Illinois. That’s the biggest story in a week of big stories we cover as we begin a new year on the Friday News Roundup.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - 2019 Homicide Numbers And Kids Chess Champions.
Homicides and shootings were down in Chicago in 2019 compared to recent years. We’ll get the numbers and the reasons behind them. Plus we’ll hear from a group of 8th grade girls from the city’s South Side are the state chess champs.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - The Best Reads Of 2019
Looking for something to read as the weather turns cold? Our panel of book experts and our listeners talk about the favorite things they read in 2019
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Why Chicago Is The Most Polish City In The U.S.
Historian Dominic Pacyga takes us inside his new book, American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Where Black America And Gothic Culture Come Together
Author Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American Gothic, analyzing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - A 60-Year History Of Gentrification In Chicago And Beyond
Matthew Sherman talks with Natalie Moore about his new book “Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents”, a history of gentrification in Chicago, San Francisco, and Brooklyn over the last 60 years.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago’s Segregation Perpetuated By Public And Private Policy
A new book by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor looks at how a mix of federal policy and private industry perpetuated the segregation lines in cities like Chicago
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Reset’s Friday News Roundup For Dec. 20, 2019
Mayor Lori Lightfoot blocks a six-month delay on recreational weed sales starting Jan.1. Cook County Board proposes a 3% pot tax. Plus Gov. JB Pritzker signs a pension consolidation bill,
Reset breaks down these stories and more in WBEZ’s Chicago and Illinois News Roundup.
GUESTS: A.D. Quig, government and politics reporter at Crain’s Chicago Business
Claudia Morell, WBEZ City Hall reporter
Lolly Bowean, Chicago Tribune reporter
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - U.S. House Impeaches President For ‘High Crimes And Misdemeanors’
Reset talks to Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley of Illinois’ 5th district, who was one of the 230 house votes in favor of impeachment.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - In Illinois, Some Prisoners Are Asked: Which Eye Could You Do Without?
A WBEZ investigation found multiple prisoners have been denied eye surgery because of a “one good eye” policy.
Also, survivors of crime in Illinois are some of the least likely in the United States to apply for victim compensation and services.
Reset finds out why from two crime victims advocates.