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

After backing out of several previous climate bills, Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia agreed to a compromise.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Lynnea Domienik

Guest: Karen Weigert

WBEZ is focused on putting together a list of fun, free, under-the-sun activities to take advantage of this summer.

Reset hears about the latest free events added for August.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Brenda Ruiz

Guest: Cassie Burke, Isabelle DeLeo

Host: Susie An

Producer: Meha Ahmad

Guest: Lee Hasselbacher

Reset explores the two primary buildings that the Jane Collective operated out of during 1972.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Stephanie Kim

Guest: Dennis Rodkin

How often do you find yourself needing to buy a new phone? Irreplaceable batteries could be to blame.

Reset hears from a tech columnist on why it damages the environment and how to get the tech industry to design longer-lasting devices.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Brenda Ruiz

Guest: Geoffrey Fowler

Sandie Yi’s goal as an artist is to create disability culture and to make the arts more accessible. Thanks to a $50,000 grant, she’ll be able to dream up different ways to continue that work in Chicago.

Yi joins Reset to share what it means to be named a 2022 Disability Futures Fellow, and how the disability community in Chicago helped her embrace her identity.

Host: Susie An

Producer: Stephanie Kim

Guest: Sandie Yi