In the Loop

By WBEZ ChicagoNews

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In the Loop episodes

August 17, 2021 Re-Imagine Chicago: How Police Militarization Impacts Public Safety
U.S. police departments kill far more citizens per 10 million people than departments in any other developed nation. Why is that? And what can Chicago and other U.S. cities learn from other cities and countries? Reset brings on Washington Post columnist and author Radley Balko and Rutgers University sociologist Paul Hirschfield for the latest in our series “Re-Imagine Chicago.”
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37 min
August 16, 2021 Re-imagine Chicago: Despite Consent Decree, Police Reform Remains Elusive
Chicago has the second-largest police force in the country, one with a stained history and a complicated relationship with the communities it policies. So what would it take to achieve significant and efficient reform in CPD? For the latest in our series “Reimagine Chicago,” Reset digs into public safety and policing.
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25 min
August 13, 2021 Weekly News Recap: August 13, 2021
The city mourns a slain officer, relations grow tense between Mayor Lightfoot and CPD, and the Mayor and police worsen, and Illinois is expected to win big in Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill.
Reset goes behind the week’s headlines in the Weekly News Recap.
27 min
August 12, 2021 Re-Imagine Chicago: Former Alderman Weighs In On Community Investment
A former Chicago alderman with some big ideas helps us wrap up our series on how community investment and economic development could work better in Chicago.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
18 min
August 11, 2021 Re-Imagine Chicago: Top City Officials On How To Improve Community Investment
How can community investment and economic development work better for all Chicago residents?
Reset checks in with two top city officials to hear their ideas and to hear them react to some creative solutions proposed earlier in our Re-imagine Chicago series.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
21 min
August 10, 2021 Re-Imagine Chicago: How TIFs Work And How They Could Work Better
For our series Re-Imagine Chicago, Reset checks in with an expert on public finance and municipal economic development and TIF critics for their creative ideas for re-imagining one of the city’s key economic development tools.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
22 min
August 09, 2021 Re-Imagine Chicago: How Mayors Have Approached Community Investment
In the second installment of our series Re-imagine Chicago, we explore how community investment works in the city. We learn about how recent Chicago mayors have approached economic development at the neighborhood level. We also hear from people working in two Chicago neighborhoods about what type of investment they need.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
19 min
August 07, 2021 WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Aug. 7, 2021
Restaurants, bars and employers are requiring vaccinations as daily COVID cases top 3,000. Plus, former Illinois Governor and convicted felon Rod Blagojevich files a lawsuit challenging the ban on his right to run for office again.

28 min
August 06, 2021 Re-imagine Chicago: How Do We Make City Government More Effective?
After a week of exploring how Chicago’s City Council and mayoral system work, we take stock of what we learned and what we can change.

29 min
August 05, 2021 Re-imagine Chicago: O Canada, What Can Chicago's City Council Learn From You?
Toronto and Chicago have a few things in common. But their city council and ward system look pretty different. So what can Chicago learn?

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30 min