Chicago aldermen are expected to cast votes on two consequential proposals during Wednesday’s City Council meeting: A planned $4 billion redevelopment of the Michael Reese hospital site along Chicago’s lakefront and a compromise that would bring civilian oversight to the Chicago Police Department for the first time.

Reset checks in with a reporter live from City Hall.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Daniel Tucker

Overdose deaths in the U.S. spiked to a record 93,000 last year, according to new federal data.

Opioids are at the heart of these tragedies. Reset asks two experts to explain the factors driving these deaths and what can be done about it.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Daniel Tucker, Steve Bynum

A new report from the Delta Institute offers 63 recommendations for reducing waste in Chicago and improving the city’s recycling rates.

Reset takes a closer look at the study’s findings and how they might impact local taxpayers

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Nereida Moreno, Daniel Tucker

As airlines face increased pressure from customers and shareholders to reduce carbon emissions, Chicago-based United Airlines recently purchased more than 100 electric-powered planes.

Reset finds out what this purchase may foretell for the move towards renewable energy for United and other airlines.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Claire Hyman, Steve Bynum

Inflation is at its highest level in over a decade, and while the Federal Reserve says the pain is temporary, try telling that to someone who depleted their savings during the pandemic or someone living on a fixed income.

Reset explains why prices are surging so high and explores what that means for U.S. workers, women and retirees.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Daniel Tucker

Chicago singer Tammy McCann is helping program music for the city, even as she works to get her own career back on track.

Reset talks to McCann about everything from the weekly events shining a positive light on the South Side to her new record project with famed guitarist Fareed Haque.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Jason Marck

Mayor Lori Lightfoot campaigned on bringing civilian oversight to the Chicago Police Department in her first 100 days. On Monday, she announced a deal with a coalition of community groups seeking police reform.

Reset hears from a grassroots activist, an alderman on the City Council’s Public Safety Committee and WBEZ city politics reporter Claudia Morell.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

The Delta variant is now the dominant COVID-19 strain around the world. In the U.S., areas with low vaccination rates are battling outbreaks driven by the variant.

Reset brings on Pulitzer Prize-winner Ed Yong for the latest on the COVID-19 surge in neighboring Missouri and why this year might be worse than last year for some communities.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Stephanie Kim

A national coalition of teachers is pushing back against white backlash to Black school curriculum like Critical Race Theory (CRT).

A Seattle-based teacher tells Reset how Black history in schools will help deconstruct systemic racism and break the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Steve Bynum

Alderman have begun the complicated and contentious process of redrawing Chicago’s ward maps.

Reset checks in with a reporter and a demographer to understand how the process works and what’s at stake.

Host: Odette Yousef

Producers: Nereida Moreno