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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from their homes, uprooted from the lives they built and stripped of their civil rights. The aftermath of Japanese American incarceration led to a national movement for reparations.

Reset learns about a new multimedia experience about the Japanese American redress movement in Chicago and the lessons their story holds for communities seeking justice and healing today.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Stephanie Kim

President Joe Biden visits Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot and Kim Foxx go head to head, and shots are fired between Illinois billionaires. Also: an actor buys Bozo.

Reset goes behind the week’s headlines on the Weekly News Recap.

As aldermen work on new ward boundaries, the Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission has published its own independent map.

Reset talks with two of the commissioners on why they believe City Council should vote on their independent “People’s Map,” which includes fewer gerrymandered wards and attempts to give residents fair and equitable representation in city government.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Nereida Moreno

We talked to ADP’s chief economist Nela Richardson to break down the latest report, and ask why the economic recovery hasn’t impacted everyone.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman

WBEZ’s Chip Mitchell joins Reset for a recap of Monday’s Chicago Police budget hearing.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Nereida Moreno

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announces she’ll seek a fourth term and Northwestern University temporarily suspends Greek life after multiple women allege being drugged at frat houses.

Reset goes behind the headlines on the Weekly News Recap.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

Public Media and the Chicago Sun-Times are in talks about joining forces to become a single nonprofit news organization.

CPM’s board of directors approved the proposed deal in a meeting Wednesday night, paving the way for CPM to acquire the Sun-Times, a move that would create one of the largest nonprofit news organizations in the nation.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Daniel Tucker

A government shutdown will go into effect Thursday at midnight if Congress does act to fund the federal government. Meanwhile, lawmakers are getting closer to voting on two massive pieces of President Biden’s agenda: A $1 trillion infrastructure package and a $3.5 trillion spending plan.

Reset checks in with a local lawmaker who sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Steve Bynum

Phoebe Robinson’s new book of essays Please Don’t Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes is out September 28.

Reset talks with the comedian, actor and author.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Sasha-Ann Simons, Claire Hyman