Mayor Lightfoot announced the creation of a new committee to reimagine the 57-acre swatch of land known as Museum Campus. We sat down with two members from the newly formed group to learn what a re-imagined lakefront might look like.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman

Reset checks in with the co-founders of the nonprofit.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Stephanie Kim

You may have spotted it if you've ever driven out of the city on the Jane Addams Tollway: a lonely little tower tucked in among the bland midrise hotels and office buildings clustered near O'Hare airport. The tower, which stands in Rosemont, Illinois, looks like it's been plucked from 16th century England. Reset talks with architecture sleuth Dennis Rodkin to dig into the tower's origin story and learn more about that area's development boom over the decades.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Sasha-Ann Simons

Declining birth rates and the outmigration of Black families is leading to a decline in the number of school age children across the city according to a study conducted by a local education advocacy group. This trend can be found in cities across the country and has real implications for the revenue CPS receives and the quality of resources available to students.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Lynnea Domienik

The closure of The Garfield Park Aldi and now the license suspension of Save A Lot has left Garfield Park residents without easy access to food in the area. Reset dissects the closures of the two businesses, and what actions Chicago will take to protect the West Side from further food insecurity.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Isabelle Earl

Children aren’t allowed to join some virtual-reality apps in the metaverse but it’s not stopping them from entering. Reset hears more about the risks children face in the largely self moderated world and what the online forum can do to protect them.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Brenda Ruiz

Last week, a judge overruled Illinois’ mask mandate in schools. The Pritzker administration is appealing, but for now, the rules on school masking depend on where you live. We asked parents to weigh in. Reset checks in with an infectious disease expert to fact check some of what was shared by parents on yesterday’s show.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Daniel Tucker, Lynnea Domienik

As COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases are on the decline in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker is expected to lift mask mandates for most public places except for schools Thursday afternoon. The move comes as governors on both coasts recently announced plans to roll back their masking rules.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Daniel Tucker and Stephanie Kim

The so-called Winter Grab will see two dozen researchers take to the ice on snowmobiles, airboats and U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers on Feb. 14 to systematically measure lake ice depth and take water samples. Reset talks with TK and TK about the project and how human-caused climate change is affecting winter conditions in the Great Lakes.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Christian Elliott

“Chicago Not In Chicago” is meant to highlight the influence the Windy City has around the globe. Reset talks to one of the people behind the campaign about how the marketing strategy was conceived as well as with a critic who would like to see Chicago featured more in future iterations.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman