In the Loop

By WBEZ ChicagoNews

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May 04, 2022 Chicago inches toward 200 homicides in 2022, and Anti-Semitic flyers left outside homes in Highland Park
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.
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24 min
May 03, 2022 Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Reacts To Supreme Court Leak On Roe v. Wade
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.
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19 min
May 02, 2022 A Month Away From The Illinois Primary, Here’s What You Need To Know
Editor: Ethan Schwabe
16 min
April 29, 2022 WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: April 29, 2022
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
Producer: Andrea Guthmann, Andrew Meriwether
Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

32 min
April 28, 2022 Preserving Trees And Wetlands Play Key Role In Mitigating Climate Change
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.

Guests: 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
Producer: Christian Elliott, Lynnea Domienik, Andrew Meriwether
Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
31 min
April 27, 2022 Why Labor Unions Are Winning Big Right Now
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
Producer: Claire Hyman, Christian Elliott, Andrew Meriwether
Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
30 min
April 26, 2022 Mayor Lightfoot Is Investing $30 Million To Address Declining Life Expectancy
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.

Producer: Claire Hyman, Lynnea Domienik, Daniel Tucker, Andrew Meriwether
Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
31 min
April 25, 2022 A Time For Reinvention: How Two Chicago Restaurateurs Are Weathering Inflation, COVID
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
17 min
April 22, 2022 WBEZ Weekly News Recap, April 22, 2022
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.

Guests: Brandon Pope, reporter/anchor at CW 26, Amanda Vinicky, WTTW political correspondent
Producer: Andrea Guthmann, Andrew Meriwether
Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
31 min
April 21, 2022 Janelle Monáe Takes Readers Inside Her Queer, Afrofuturistic World In ‘The Memory Librarian’
In her new book The Memory Librarian, Janelle Monáe expands on the afrofuturistic world of her album Dirty Computer. The collection of five short stories center around Black and queer protagonists on a journey of self-love and discovery.

Reset talks to Monáe about entering the literary space, afrofuturism and finding joy ahead of her book talk on Friday at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago.

Guest: Janelle Monáe, singer-songwriter, actor and author of The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
Producer: Stephanie Kim, Andrew Meriwether
Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
14 min