Museums are grappling with the fine art of how to educate the public about their collection. At the Art Institute of Chicago, that job has long gone to an army of unpaid volunteers.

Reset examines the Art Institute’s decision to dismantle its long standing docent program.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

Reset talks with the Cook County Sheriff’s office and a local journalist who has been drawing attention to the unsolved murders of Black women in Chicago for years.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Lynnea Domienik

CPM’s board of directors approved the proposed deal in a meeting Wednesday night, paving the way for CPM to acquire the Sun-Times, a move that would create one of the largest nonprofit news organizations in the nation.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Daniel Tucker

Every time we get a new device, the cords, chargers and old devices themselves begin to pile up, tucked away in some drawer or cabinet.

Reset discusses how you can repurpose and recycle the e-waste in your life.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Daniel Tucker

After signing a purchase agreement for a former horse race track in Arlington Heights, the Chicago Bears are looking towards a new chapter in their legacy as a team.

Reset checks in with a local sports reporter.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Daniel Tucker, Olivia Canny

University of Chicago professor and Chicago native Jacqueline Stewart was awarded a $625,000 “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. Her work highlights the overlooked contributions of Black filmmakers and movie-goers.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman

Since its creation in 2008, Red Clay Dance Company’s mission has been to amplify the voices of the African Diaspora through innovative, contemporary choreography.

Red Clay’s work confronts inequities and injustices, using dance as a way to achieve social change.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

Paula Poundstone may be best known for her frequent appearance on Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, her hit comedy special Cats, Cops and Stuff, or her work on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in the 1990s. Now, the comedy legend will come to Chicago’s Athenaeum Theater on Oct. 2 for her post-pandemic tour

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Heena Srivastava

Reset checks in with local activists to learn who is missing, why so many cases of missing and murdered Black women and girls go unsolved, and what can be done to change that.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Lynnea Domienik

A government shutdown will go into effect Thursday at midnight if Congress does act to fund the federal government. Meanwhile, lawmakers are getting closer to voting on two massive pieces of President Biden’s agenda: A $1 trillion infrastructure package and a $3.5 trillion spending plan.

Reset checks in with a local lawmaker

who sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Steve Bynum