Season 3 of HBO’s South Side will kick off Dec. 8. The television comedy series is based in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.

Reset checks in some of the creative minds that brought the show to life.

Our host Sasha-Ann Simons will take this conversation further at an event with the South Side crew at the DuSable Black History Museum on Tuesday, Dec. 6, from 7:30 pm to 9 pm. Click here to learn more.

GUESTS: Diallo Riddle, actor and co-creator of South Side

Bashir Salahuddin, actor and co-creator of South Side

Sultan Salahuddin, actor in South Side

What sets poet Sandra Cisneros apart is how she writes with biting honesty about her life.

Reset learns about her latest book Woman Without Shame and how it illustrates how she’s found beauty in self-love, feminism and aging.

GUEST: Sandra Cisneros, poet and author

The Treasurer’s Office released a report explaining why property taxes have gone up so much since last year. The report also includes an analysis of how much bills increased or decreased by neighborhood.

Reset checks in with a reporter to break down what’s going on with property taxes.

GUEST: A.D. Quig, Cook County and Chicago government reporter for the Chicago Tribune

Gun violence is now one of the leading causes of death among children in the U.S. Does that make it a public health crisis? Some physicians think so.

Reset talks with a doctor who survived the July 4th mass shooting in Highland Park about why he’s lobbying Congress for a federal ban on assault weapons.

GUEST: Elliot Lieberman, physician at North Shore Ear Nose and Throat Associates in Highland Park

COVID and the flu are on the rise in the Chicago area. Meanwhile, a new report out from the Chicago Department of Public Health shows that HIV has ticked up slightly but that AIDS diagnoses have hit historic lows.

Reset digs deeper into those health trends and more.

GUEST: Dr. Mia Taormina, infectious disease specialist with Duly Health and Care

The University of Chicago’s men’s soccer team won their first Division III NCAA championship Saturday. Head coach Julianne Sitch made history as the first woman to coach a winning NCAA men’s soccer team.

Reset sits down with Coach Sitch to talk about the team and her career.

GUEST: Julianne Sitch, head coach of the UChicago Maroons men’s soccer team

The University of Chicago’s men’s soccer team won their first Division III NCAA championship Saturday. Head coach Julianne Sitch made history as the first woman to coach a winning NCAA men’s soccer team.

Reset sits down with Coach Sitch to talk about the team and her career.

GUEST: Julianne Sitch, head coach of the UChicago Maroons men’s soccer team

The New Year is approaching and it leads many of us to sign up for the new gym membership to motivate us to get active. But often the experience of going to one of the Big Box gyms can be less than stellar. They can be crowded, intimidating or just plain unenjoyable. So how can you find a fitness spot you’ll actually go to and is welcoming to everyone?

Reset talks to some independent gym owners who are actively making an inclusive place for anyone to get active.

GUESTS: Annie Padrid, owner of the gym The Space in Hyde Park

Jake Goldstein, co-Owner of The Gym Pod

Alex Nsiah-Kumi, co-owner of Paramount Fitness and Personal Training

One way to reduce fatal overdose deaths could be to make safe injection more accessible. A bill introduced in the Illinois legislative session aims to reverse the devastating trend of the opioid epidemic by setting up state-licensed spaces where people could use drugs under supervision.

Reset checks in with advocates for the program and a legislator who introduced the bill.

GUESTS: Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-8th)

Lee Rusch, director, West Side Heroin Opioid Task Force

Tanya Sorrell, co-chair of the Illinois Harm Reduction & Recovery Coalition

Dr. Michelle Lelwica is the author of several books including, Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement and Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession with Food and Weight, which examine the deep relationship between body image and moral purity.

Reset speaks with the religious scholar to learn how Christianity has informed our beliefs about what makes a healthy body.

GUEST: Michelle Lelwica, professor of religion at Concordia College