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The Chicago Teachers Union said they're making progress in contract negotiations, but it is not enough.
- School is canceled again today, marking the fifth day without classes since the strike began.
- The day is starting with 25k teachers marching to City Hall for Mayor Lightfoot's speech.
With legal recreational pot coming soon to Illinois, the National Safety Council is urging companies to make sure employees in sensitive positions aren't using it.
- The organization says until there's a reliable test of impairment for marijuana, employers should completely ban it for people working in positions such as drivers, police officers, doctors and childcare workers.
- Nearly 1 in 4 companies said they would dismiss an employee found to be under the influence of legal marijuana on the job.
Always sanitary products will remove the Venus symbol, historically used to represent the female sex, from its products to be inclusive of transgender and nonbinary customers.
- The change is the latest in a series of actions companies and governments are taking as transgender equality activism surges.
- Other companies making similar moves: Lyft, Mastercard, and Tinder.
In Sports:
- Blackhawks lost 2 to 1 to Golden Knights last night
- Bulls open their regular season tonight in Charlotte
- AND the Nationals beat the Astros 5 to 4 in game one of the World Series.
- Game two is tonight.
