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- Data: Tens of thousands of Chicago-area residents rely on assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher program to help pay for rent in the private market. But recent complaints and lawsuits suggest a pattern of discrimination, according to fair housing advocates www.wbez.org/data/2025/05...
- Listen: Chicago’s City Council has backed a “green social housing” initiative to combat climate change and housing shortages. Reset breaks down what’s in the plan and hears from affordable housing advocates about what it could mean for the future of housing. www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...
- Listen: The NIH is freezing funding to several universities, including Northwestern University where a lab working on next-generation treatments for ovarian and pancreatic cancer is no longer able to continue what a head professor says is “promising research.” www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...
- Gov. JB Pritzker has not yet announced whether he will seek a third term as Illinois governor next year, while also not shooting down the idea that he’ll run for president in 2028. www.wbez.org/politics/202...
- VIDEO: Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first pope from the United States. We opened up phone lines at WBEZ Reset to hear what our listeners had to say about the announcement. Thank you for calling in, Chicago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETjo...
- Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary born in Chicago who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. www.wbez.org/religion/202...
