A new Illinois law aims to prevent hair discrimination in schools. Starting Jan. 1, schools will not be allowed to have dress code and uniform policies on hairstyles historically associated with race or ethnicity.

Reset discusses what this move means for students and families across the state, and why it’s important to teach children to take pride in their hair and culture.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Stephanie Kim

While hot temperatures in Chicago drop ever so slowly, the housing market is cooling off pretty quick. Reset checks in with a residential real estate reporter for the latest developments in Chicago’s housing market.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Olivia Canny

Rick Klein, curator of the Museum of Classic Chicago Television, joins Reset to explain his mission to save vintage local TV shows and commercials before they’re gone forever.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann, Steve Bynum

The U.S. birth rate dropped again in 2020 and the pandemic might be speeding up the decline, according to the latest federal data. Last year marked the sixth consecutive year the number of births has fallen in the country.

Reset talks to a historian and opens the phones to listeners to discuss why more women in the U.S. are having fewer children, delaying motherhood or deciding not to have children at all.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Stephanie Kim

Researchers estimate between 10 and 30% of COVID-19 patients develop long-term symptoms like headaches, muscle pain and brain fog. But there’s still so much we don’t know about the long-term effects of the virus.

Reset checks in with two physicians who work with COVID long haulers and a patient with lingering symptoms.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Nereida Moreno

Julie Rodgers served as conservative Christian Wheaton College’s first openly gay hire. She had participated in and advocated for gay conversion therapy.

Rodgers joins Reset to discuss her mea culpa through her forthcoming memoir and starring role in the new Netflix documentary, Pray Away.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Daniel Tucker, Steve Bynum

Chaotic scenes erupted at the airport in Kabul as hundreds of people clung to a U.S. aircraft departing the capital. But as a desperation to flee the country seizes countless Afghans, the question remains: Where will they go? And what role will the U.S. play in aiding refugees?

Reset checks in with a refugee resettlement agency that has previously resettled Afghans in the Chicago area.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Lynnea Domienik

Food reporter and author Steve Dolinsky is bringing his expertise to NBC-5 and rebranding as “The Food Guy” for a new weekly series that explores restaurants and dining trends across the city and suburbs.

Reset checks in with the 13-time James Beard Award to discuss his new role and get recommendations on what to eat this weekend.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Nereida Moreno

We talked to listeners and Reset’s resident dating coach, Bela Gandhi, to hear how people have changed their approach to dating over the past 18 months.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman, Olivia Canny

As the city mourns a slain officer, relations between the Mayor and police worsen. Chicago’s business community calls for mandatory vaccines as the city expands its COVID travel advisory.

Reset goes behind the week’s headlines in the Weekly News Recap.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann