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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

WBEZ's daily talk show brings listeners the news and conversations that matter most to their day-to-day lives.

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When People Say “Don’t Go To The South or West Side”

When People Say “Don’t Go To The South or West Side”

Many people born and raised in Chicago, and many newbies to the city, are told to not go to the South or West sides of t... Read more

12 Jan 2020

17mins

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Mayor Lightfoot Takes Listener Questions

Mayor Lightfoot Takes Listener Questions

One day after Mayor Lightfoot’s first budget address, she answered questions from Reset and from listeners across the ci... Read more

24 Oct 2019

29mins

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Friday News Roundup For Jan. 24, 2020

Friday News Roundup For Jan. 24, 2020

Illinois state politics gurus Amanda Vinicky (WTTW) and Tony Arnold (WBEZ) bring us the latest news out of Springfield i... Read more

24 Jan 2020

22mins

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Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: April 17, 2020

Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: April 17, 2020

Heather Cherone has moved from the Daily Line to WTTW, but she continues to bring us fantastic state and local political... Read more

17 Apr 2020

22mins

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An Important Message For Morning Shift Listeners

An Important Message For Morning Shift Listeners

Why haven't you seen a daily podcast in your feed this week? As we wind down Morning Shift and ramp up our new program R... Read more

2 Oct 2019

1min

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Friday News Roundup For Feb. 14, 2020

Friday News Roundup For Feb. 14, 2020

A final four for Chicago’s top cop job, the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Aurora, and Jussie Smollett is ... Read more

14 Feb 2020

31mins

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Coronavirus Hitting Homeless Hard

Coronavirus Hitting Homeless Hard

For some, the coronavirus outbreak is a big inconvenience. But for the homeless population in and around Chicago, it’s a... Read more

17 Mar 2020

15mins

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WBEZ’s Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: March 27, 2020

WBEZ’s Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: March 27, 2020

Reset breaks down the biggest news of the week in WBEZ’s Friday News Roundup with host Jenn White.GUESTS: Paris Schutz, ... Read more

27 Mar 2020

19mins

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A 60-Year History Of Gentrification In Chicago And Beyond

A 60-Year History Of Gentrification In Chicago And Beyond

Matthew Sherman talks with Natalie Moore about his new book “Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents”, a history o... Read more

26 Dec 2019

22mins

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Lightfoot Fires Chicago’s Top Cop, Former Madigan Campaign Worker Reaches $275K Settlement

Lightfoot Fires Chicago’s Top Cop, Former Madigan Campaign Worker Reaches $275K Settlement

This morning, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired the city’s top cop Eddie Johnson. The mayor said the CPD superintendent... Read more

2 Dec 2019

23mins

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Markets In Tizzy Over Inverted Yield Curve, Chicago’s Safe House

Markets In Tizzy Over Inverted Yield Curve, Chicago’s Safe House

Over the last week, news reports and business channels have been throwing around the term Inverted Yield Curve. We’ll fi... Read more

18 Aug 2019

22mins

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Ibram X. Kendi Explains How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi Explains How To Be An Antiracist

Author, Historian, and the director of American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center Ibram X. Kendi talks ... Read more

3 Nov 2019

20mins

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Dump The Tests: Some Illinois Universities Rethinking Admissions Process

Dump The Tests: Some Illinois Universities Rethinking Admissions Process

Northern Illinois University is one of the first higher education institutions to go fully test-blind in their admission... Read more

12 Feb 2020

19mins

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Friday News Roundup for Jan 10, 2020

Friday News Roundup for Jan 10, 2020

WBEZ’s, Tony Arnold, Better Government Association CEO David Greising, and Shia Kapos of Politico talk about the biggest... Read more

10 Jan 2020

31mins

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Gov. Prizker Declares State of Emergency Over Coronavirus

Gov. Prizker Declares State of Emergency Over Coronavirus

The latest on the covid-19 outbreak in Illinois and what government officials are doing to keep the virus at bay. And th... Read more

10 Mar 2020

21mins

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Social Distancing The Best Way To Break The Coronavirus Pandemic

Social Distancing The Best Way To Break The Coronavirus Pandemic

We know the novel coronavirus, or covid 19, easily spreads from person to person. Atlantic writer Yascha Mounk says that... Read more

12 Mar 2020

17mins

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Friday News Roundup For Jan 3, 2020

Friday News Roundup For Jan 3, 2020

Pot. Weed. Grass. Doobie. Mary Jane. Whatever you want to call it, marijuana is legal in Illinois. That’s the biggest st... Read more

3 Jan 2020

31mins

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Chicago Kids Combating Gun Violence In Schools, Neighborhoods

Chicago Kids Combating Gun Violence In Schools, Neighborhoods

One weekend in America, two more mass shootings. While the national media focuses on the massacres in El Paso and Dayton... Read more

5 Aug 2019

13mins

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Answers Questions from Reset & Listeners

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Answers Questions from Reset & Listeners

Mayor Lori Lightfoot joins us for an extended conversations about the covid-19 pandemic, the city’s plans and preparedne... Read more

3 Apr 2020

24mins

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Friday News Roundup For Feb 28, 2020

Friday News Roundup For Feb 28, 2020

Coronavirus, city towing, and CPS dumping Columbus Day. Those are just some of the local stories we cover with journalis... Read more

28 Feb 2020

29mins

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