WBEZ’s Motive podcast takes listeners inside real-life stories to answer the question: How could this have happened? The investigative series returns with a closer look at the hidden world of big prisons in small towns in Illinois.

Reset learns more from the host of season 4.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Stephanie Kim

Bell Bowl Prairie on the Rockford International Airport’s property represents five of just 18 acres of dry gravel prairie left in Illinois – thePrairie State – and is home to rare plants and an endangered species of bumble bee. The Greater Rockford Airport Authority agreed to preserve it back in 1977 but now plans to destroy the prairie as part of a $50 million expansion.

Reset learns more about where efforts to save the prairie stand.

Hosts: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Christian Elliott

What progress has the Chicago Police Department made toward meeting required reforms and why does the department need three more years to meet them?

Reset talks to CPD’s point person on reforms and a civil rights attorney who’s been involved in the consent decree litigation.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, cases are low in the U.S., but concerns remain about the BA.2 variant.

Reset charts the variant’s spread and ask an expert how we can stay safe. Plus, the FDA is planning to authorize another COVID-19 booster for adults 50 and up.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman

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Stephanie Kim

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