With the Monkeypox vaccine supply unable to meet demand and Omicron-specific COVID boosters on the horizon, vaccines are on the mind.

Reset talks to an infectious disease specialist and takes listener calls.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Sarah Stark

Guest: Dr. Mia Taormina

In a new series called “Reset: Lost and Found,” producers track down things in Chicago that a Google search can’t uncover.

In this installment, a Reset listener emailed us searching for her deceased friend’s favorite drink, Swedish egg coffee. We assigned one of our producers to learn the history of the beverage and teach us how to make it.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Claire Hyman

Guest: Claire Hyman, Patty Rasmussen

Swim Across America, an event that raises money for cancer research, returns for its 29th year in Chicago this weekend. Participants will swim at the Ohio Street Beach.

Reset talks with one team captain about why he’s swimming in the event.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Lynnea Domienik

Guest: Steve Schlegel

High-profile resignations are causing turmoil in the office of Cook County State’s Attorney’s Kim Foxx. Meanwhile, the Illinois Democratic Party gets a new leader. Plus, retiring South Side Congressman Bobby Rush seeks a pardon from the president.

Reset goes behind the headlines with a panel of journalists on the Weekly News Recap.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Andrea Guthmann

Guest: Alex Nitkin, Dave McKinney, Christian Farr

Music Box Theatre kicked off its monthlong food and film series this week with the 1985 Japanese movie TAMPOPO and Matzo Ball “Scotch Egg” Pastramen from Steingold’s Deli next door.

Reset learns more about food and film pairings available in August.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Brenda Ruiz

Guest: Cheo Melendez, Jeremy Marder

Devon Price didn’t realize he was autistic until after he finished his PhD in psychology. Now, he’s devoting much of his career to researching and writing about autism—and he thinks autistic people should be weary of seeking a formal diagnosis, particularly if they are trans or gender nonconforming.

Reset learns more about the inequities autistic people face and how to find community as an autistic adult.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Sarah Stark

Guest: Devon Price

Reset checks in with Diane Swonk, Chicago-based chief economist at KPMG.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Meha Ahmad

Guest: Diane Swonk

The shooter in the massacre at the Highland Park July 4th Parade faces 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery for his alleged attack one month ago.

Reset breaks down the latest on the case.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Daniel Tucker

Guest: Chip Mitchell

Steven Thrasher, who built a career reporting on HIV and its criminalization, found himself quarantining with friends in New York City in March 2020. He recognized the maps of the city’s COVID-19 infections and deaths: they were jarringly similar to maps showing where people lived who were HIV positive, harassed or killed by police, and incarcerated. In his new book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, Thrasher navigates these many intersections and explores what it means to be sick under oppressive systems.

Reset sits down with the book’s author.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Sarah Stark

Guest: Steven Thrasher

A pharmacy desert is defined as an area where at least a third of residents live a mile or more from the nearest pharmacy. According to research by USC professor Dima Qato, who coined the term, the South and West sides of Chicago, areas already plagued by disinvestment have seen an increase in the number of pharmacy deserts since the pandemic began.

Reset learns more from the professor behind the research and a reporter who covered the story.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Marie Mendoza

Guest: Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, Dima Qato