Chicago Housing Authority has approved leasing land to Chicago Public Schools to build a new high school in Chinatown. This comes after Mayor Lori Lightfoot replaced Chicago Public Schools board member Dwayne Truss with Former Ald. Michael Scott. Some are speculating this is due to Truss’ lack of support for the new high school.

Reset checks in with a WBEZ Education reporter for the latest.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Brenda Ruiz

Guest: Sarah Karp

The Urban Institute found that between 2011-2017, majority-white neighborhoods in Chicago received 4.6 times as much market investment per household as majority-Black neighborhoods, and 2.6 times as much investment as majority-Latino neighborhoods.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Lynnea Domienik

Guest: Ja’Net Defell

A recent study from Johns Hopkins University and the Georgia Institute of Technology show biases in artificial intelligence programs can translate into racist and sexist decisions.

Reset discusses the findings of the study and how those biases can affect us even today.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Brenda Ruiz

Guest: Pranshu Verma

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Marie Mendoza

Guest: Mariah Woelfel

Dating apps abound, but infinite swiping can be an exhausting way to look for romance. Reset checks in with a few dating experts to learn best practices for meeting a mate without the help of platforms like Tinder or Hinge. And listeners call-in with their questions and two cents about dating during a pandemic.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Claire Hyman

Guest: Amanda Chatel, Bela Gandhi, Anita Chlipala

In addition to building libraries, librarians provide crucial education in technology and media literacy. Of 513 schools in the CPS system, fewer than 100 have full-time librarians.

Reset breaks down this self-made shortage with recently laid off CPS librarians.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Sarah Stark

Guest: Nader Issa, Nora Wiltse, Leslie Westerberg

Three police officers have died by suicide in the past month. Experts say the culture of overwork and lack of adequate mental health resources are large contributors to this crisis.

Reset learns more from a former CPD mental health adviser.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Marie Mendoza

Guest: Alexa James

Before the nationwide launch of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, callers had to dial at least 10 digits: 800-273-8255. That number will still work, but experts are hoping the new three-digit number will make it easier for people in a mental health crisis to get the support they need.

Reset learns about this change and what the transition will look like in Illinois.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Stephanie Kim

Guest: Philip Martinez

More than 3,000 Cook County residents are ordered by a court to wear an ankle monitor, meaning they can get arrested if they leave their house, job, and other permitted locations. But a study from the University of Chicago found that about 80 percent of signals from ankle monitors are false alarms, forcing those wearing them to prove their innocence again and again.

Reset talks with two journalists who’ve spoken to Chicagoans currently and formerly on electronic monitoring.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Char Daston

Guest: Natalie Frazier, Matt Chapman

There have been over 1,200 shootings and over 300 homicides in Chicago in 2022, as of the end of June. The nearly 40 violence prevention groups that were awarded money from the American Rescue Plan funds do things like help raise money to cover funerals, fund violence prevention workers and counselors who sit with families in hospitals after a shooting, and help convince people to not retaliate with violence.

Reset learns more from WBEZ criminal justice reporter who has been shadowing violence prevention workers.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Lynnea Domienik

Guest: Patrick Smith