In the Loop

Illinois lawmakers gather in Springfield today to kick off the fall veto session. Legislators are expected to vote on some big ticket items, including House Bill 38-88. That’s legislation that would effectively ban emissions of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas.

Ethylene oxide was the gas being emitted from the Sterigenics plant in DuPage county before it was closed down earlier this year. Meanwhile, it’s still being put into the air by two facilities in Lake County.

Reset talks to two scientists from the group Stop EtO--that's “Stop Ethylene Oxide”--in Lake County. 

We also check in with Brian Mackey, the state government and politics reporter for WUIS and NPR Illinois, for a rundown on what’s on the agenda this fall.

Poet Saeed Jones’s new memoir How We Fight For Our Lives is at once raw and painful...and achingly beautiful. Jones writes about growing up black and gay and trying figure out how to carve out an identify separate from the people he loves most. An identity that is authentically him...and space where he can find joy in himself.

Heather Cherone of the Daily Line, John Byrne of the Chicago Tribune, and WBEZ’s Claudia Morell talk about the mayor’s budget address, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and much more on our Friday News Roundup.

One day after Mayor Lightfoot’s first budget address, she answered questions from Reset and from listeners across the city. No filters, nothing pre-arranged. Just a straight Q & A.

Reset Bonus Pod: In case you missed it, we're bringing you Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2020 budget speech, unedited and in its entirety 

Our panel of experts break down Mayor Lightfoot's first budget speech, where she described her plans to fill a deficit of over $800 million 

The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III talks about how his congregation raised the money to wipe out over $5 million in medical debt for 6,000 South Side residents.

And a new exhibition is up at the Chicago History Museum that focuses on the past, present, and future of the diverse Muslim communities in Chicago and the suburbs.

What were the feds looking for when they raided the City Club of Chicago, and why was Mike Madigan's name on the list? And Lee Bey's new book Southern Exposure documents architecture on the South Side.

How do you build a museum from scratch...that encompasses 400 years of African American history? How do you get it to tell hard truths, without making it a completely depressing experience for visitors? And how do you do it in a politically charged time, when the African American experience continues to shift and change? You talk to Lonnie Bunch. He explains how he managed to pull it off in his new memoir A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

Teachers on strike, cops getting fired, and where pot will be sold in the city are just some of the stories our panel of takes on in Reset’s Friday News Roundup featuring WTTW’s Paris Schutz, The Daily Line’s Heather Cherone, and David Greising of the Better Government Association.