NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio was fined almost $ 48,000 by the New York City Campaign
Finance Board on Thursday
for hiring a makeup artist
for his family on election night, paying airfare
for his son, Dante, to attend an Al Sharpton
rally in Washington, D.C. and paying Hilltop
Public Solutions, a firm owned by close mayoral adviser Nicholas Baldick, $ 168,000 in improper post-election spending.
A small group of Chicago Teachers Union members and supporters
rallied Thursday outside City Hall to protest expected layoffs and repeat a long - standing call
for using surplus tax - increment
financing funds to help Chicago
Public Schools.