In the Loop

As football season kicks off, Bears release plans for a new stadium in Arlington Heights. Plus, aldermen feel the pressure over a near ten percent pay raise, while more announce they’re leaving City Council. Reset goes behind the headlines on the Weekly News Recap with Paris Schutz, correspondent and anchor, WTTW-TV, Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune reporter, and Alex Nitkin, Better Government Association reporter.

The lab was one of three cities to receive a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Reset checks in with Cristina Negri, director of Argonne’s Environmental Sciences Division and CROCUS lead and Naomi Davis from Blacks in Green.

After experiencing a surge in medical misinformation during the pandemic, Dr. Vineet Arora and Sara Serritella decided medical professionals needed training to help combat it. Reset sits down with Dr. Arora and Serritella to learn about their new course and how to prevent medical misinformation from spreading.

Ibram X. Kendi’s new picture book Magnolia Flower celebrates its release this week. The book, adapted from a short story by Zora Neale Hurston, tells the story of Magnolia, the daughter of parents who escaped slavery and the Trail of Tears. It features vibrant illustrations of the characters and the island where they find freedom by the artist Loveis Wise. Reset talks with Ibram X. Kendi.

New COVID-19 vaccines are available to Chicago residents this week. The city has received 150,000 doses of both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech boosters, which target omicron subvariants. Reset gets the latest from Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health.

What does safety look like? What do we need to be safe? What threatens that safety? Reset hears from Andrea Ritchie, co-author of the new book No More Police: A Case for Abolition and explores new ways to think about public safety.

Since the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Illinois medical professionals and advocates are working to make sure people have access to contraceptive care. Reset talks with Dr. Debra Stulberg, primary care physician at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and Kate Thiede, executive director of Illinois Contraceptive Action Now, an organization working to get free and low-cost contraception to people.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released the August Jobs Report. The report shows that though employers hired over 300,000 new workers, unemployment rose slightly to 3.7% as more people look for jobs.

Reset breaks down the data with Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG financial services firm.

The art rock duo OHMME recently announced that they will be changing their name to FINOM. The band is made up of Macie Stewart and Sima Cunningham, who are veterans in Chicago's DIY music scene. They test the boundaries of their voices and their instruments to create a strange yet spellbinding sound. Reset sat down with FINOM to talk about the name change and break down some of their music.