19 Illinois counties are now under the CDC’s “high” alert level for COVID-19 transmission. What does that mean for summertime activities? And how worried should you be about monkeypox?

Reset checks in with an infectious disease specialist.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Christian Elliott

Guest: Dr. Mia Taormina

Illinois has the 8th strictest gun laws in the nation according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Reset talks with reporters and an expert to understand what separates Illinois from states with even stricter gun laws, like California and New York.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Daniel Tucker

Guests: Robert Spitzer, Patrick Smith, and Dan Clark

In her new book Rising Troublemaker, Luvvie Ajayi Jones wants to help teenagers find their own voice, take up space, and even make their own kind of trouble. Reset talks to Ajayi Jones about her new book and what advice she wishes she would have gotten as a teenager.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Meha Ahmad, Sasha Ann Simons

Guest: Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Democrat incumbents U.S. Reps. Marie Newman and Sean Casten are battling it out for the newly redrawn 6th Congressional District in Illinois. Meanwhile, six Republicans are trying to flip the district. Reset gets the latest on the race.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Stephanie Kim

Guests: Dave McKinney, Hannah Meisel

Chicago has seen a wave of union organizing and worker activism over the past year. Baristas at the loop Starbucks petitioned for a union last fall, and teachers at the Old Town School of Folk Music won a union contract on Thursday. Reset learns the details from lead union organizers at the Loop Starbucks and the Old Town School.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Char Daston

Guests: Brick Zurek, Chris Walz

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Ethan Schwabe

Guests: Glenn Curran, and Sen Morimoto

An ethics bill stalls in Chicago’s City Council and Illinois’ Attorney General files the state’s first-ever hate crime lawsuit. Reset takes listeners behind the week’s headlines in the Weekly News Recap.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Andrea Guthmann

Guests: Ray Long, Alex Nitkin, and Dan Mihalopoulos

Whether you like them glazed or jelly filled with sprinkles on top, eating donuts are a good way to start the weekend. Reset celebrates National Donut Day and talks through favorite spots in Chicago.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Brenda Ruiz

Guests: Burritt Bulloch, Naomi Waxman, Maya-Camille Broussard, Louisa Chu

The Court Theatre last week won the 2022 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The award recognizes the theater for “Fostering local talent,” according to the American Theater Wing, which manages the award. The Court is the University of Chicago’s professional theater company. Its current production, Two Trains Running, is the Court’s ninth of ten plays in August Wilson’s Century Cycle, which documents Black life in the 20th century. Reset checks in with Charlie Newell, the Court’s artistic director, and Ron OJ Parson, director of Two Trains Running.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Char Daston

Guests: Ron OJ Parson, Angel Ysaguirre

This initiative was approved in March, but is being launched today. It is one of only a few initiatives nationwide to be housed in a prosecutor’s office. Reset gets specifics about the program.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Lynnea Domienik

Guests: Sara Knizhnik, Eric Rinehart