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Dec 18, 2024 | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Ethan Schwabe
The end of 2024 is right around the corner, and you know what that means: A seemingly endless parade of end-of-year lists. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the best-of things you haven’t gotten around to, but we offer something close to our hearts at WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times: an unpretentious list that comes from our staff of book lovers.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Ethan Schwabe
The end of 2024 is here, and you know what that means: a seemingly endless parade of end-of-year lists. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the best-of things you haven’t gotten around to, but we offer something different: an unpretentious list that comes from our staff of book lovers. Whether you speed-read 100 books a year or take your time with a special few, here are 18 of our favorite reads of 2024, with the recommendation verbatim from the person who suggested it.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Micah Yason |Ethan Schwabe
Divide between Chicago’s mayor and its city council remains over how to close a nearly $1 billion budget gap. Meanwhile, drama in the Johnson administration continues as alders call for reforms to the city’s “Do Not Hire” list. Reset goes behind the headlines of those stories and much more in our Weekly News Recap.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Micah Yason |Andy Grimm |Bianca Cseke |Ethan Schwabe
Natalie Moore covers segregation and inequality. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Natalie’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Natalie is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Dennis Rodkin |Sasha-Ann Simons |Ethan Schwabe |Lee Bey
If you’ve passed the former Thompson Center during its current phase of remodeling and seen its red skeletal structure, you probably know that new glass will be installed around the building. But 60 miles due north, there’s another, much later building by the same architect, Helmut Jahn, where the exposed red skeleton is permanent.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Andrea Guthmann |Micah Yason |Ethan Schwabe |Lynnea Domienik
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Micah Yason |Ethan Schwabe |Sasha-Ann Simons
Brandon Johnson has proposed the biggest property tax hike in a decade. Meanwhile, the Chicago Board of Education’s newly appointed president resigned over social media posts criticized as antisemitic. Reset breaks down those stories and much more with a panel of journalists. GUESTS: Tessa Weinberg, WBEZ city government and politics reporterDan Petrella, Chicago Tribune political writerChristian Farr, NBC 5 Chicago reporter
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Dennis Rodkin |Ethan Schwabe
When visitors show their tickets, pass through an arched wooden gateway into Ravinia and walk across to the Arts & Crafts style Martin Theater, they’re following in the footsteps of the people who came to Ravinia’s opening night on Aug. 15, 1904. The Martin Theater, with sculptural lanterns flanking the stairs, windows whose stained glass looks like stage lights amid trees and a broad arched entrance, is largely how it looked that night 120 years ago.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Ellie Gilbert-Bair |Micah Yason |Ethan Schwabe
A judge sides with the city of Chicago on DNC protest route, Riot Fest returns to Douglass Park, and a former school official is sentenced to prison for stealing nearly $1.5 million in chicken wings. Reset goes behind the headlines of those stories and much more in our Weekly News Recap. GUESTS: Carrie Shepherd, Chicago reporter for AxiosDave McKinney, WBEZ state politics reporterJulie Bosman, Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Ellie Gilbert-Bair |Micah Yason |Ethan Schwabe |Max Lubbers |Lynnea Domienik
From the deep-dish-versus-tavern-style debate to the fierceness of defending ketchup-less hot dogs, Chicagoans have feelings about food. Is it giardiniera that unites us? Reset hears the case for why the spicy pickled condiment is one thing Chicagoans can agree on. GUEST: Ashok Selvam, editor, Eater Chicago
