Mayor Brandon Johnson City Council April
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a Chicago City Council meeting in April. The Johnson administration recently announced plans to finish spending COVID-19 federal relief funds. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Brandon Johnson City Council April
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a Chicago City Council meeting in April. The Johnson administration recently announced plans to finish spending COVID-19 federal relief funds. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times

Lawmakers return to Springfield for spring session, where the Bears’ stadium plans are sidelined by the governor’s aides and other political leaders. Meanwhile, Mayor Johnson prepares to relaunch a guaranteed basic income program.

Reset goes behind those headlines and more with a panel of local journalists on the Weekly News Recap.

GUESTS: Monica Eng, Chicago reporter for AXIOS

Ray Long, Chicago Tribune investigative reporter and author of The House That Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois’ Velvet Hammer

Mariah Woelfel, WBEZ city politics and government reporter

Mayor Brandon Johnson City Council April
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a Chicago City Council meeting in April. The Johnson administration recently announced plans to finish spending COVID-19 federal relief funds. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Brandon Johnson City Council April
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a Chicago City Council meeting in April. The Johnson administration recently announced plans to finish spending COVID-19 federal relief funds. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times

Lawmakers return to Springfield for spring session, where the Bears’ stadium plans are sidelined by the governor’s aides and other political leaders. Meanwhile, Mayor Johnson prepares to relaunch a guaranteed basic income program.

Reset goes behind those headlines and more with a panel of local journalists on the Weekly News Recap.

GUESTS: Monica Eng, Chicago reporter for AXIOS

Ray Long, Chicago Tribune investigative reporter and author of The House That Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois’ Velvet Hammer

Mariah Woelfel, WBEZ city politics and government reporter