BARRINGTON, IL: $23.2M on 47,498 FEC receipts

Reading $23,229,659 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $23,229,659 and 47,498 lines. The implied average is about $489. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Barrington book.

Lake and Cook counties share Barrington-area streets on the map. The FEC key is still BARRINGTON with state IL. Filers typed BARRINGTON in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state IL. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string.

If a newsroom map paints Barrington together with Palatine and Inverness, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,229,659 on 47,498 BARRINGTON, IL rows, mean near $489. Barrington Hills, if stored as its own string, is not this page.

Why BARRINGTON, IL on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Barrington give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BARRINGTON, IL total $23,229,659 across 47,498 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,229,659. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State IL is what keeps this page off Barrington, RI.

Outside the Barrington itemized book

$23,229,659 is not spending by Barrington candidates. A candidate who lives in Barrington can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged BARRINGTON, IL can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $489 does not describe a median resident of Barrington. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Palatine, Inverness, or Barrington Hills is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $23,229,659 counts rows that stored BARRINGTON, IL. 47,498 lines. About $489 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Barrington versus Chicago on the FEC tape

Barrington posts $23,229,659 on 47,498 lines, a mean near $489. That is fewer rows than several volume books with similar dollar totals. Fewer rows is not a unique-donor count.

Comparing Barrington’s mean to Chicago is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Illinois state data breaks the comparison.

A Barrington total of $23,229,659 does not absorb Palatine, Inverness, or Chicago. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State IL stays on the citation so BARRINGTON, IL is not merged with Barrington, RI.

City total versus postal codes in IL

47,498 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live Barrington hub rather than guessing the split.

After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about Barrington politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $23,229,659

A mean of about $489 is division of $23,229,659 by 47,498. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Barrington.

Internal links on this page go only to the Barrington city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Barrington’s $23,229,659 across 47,498 contributions is a northwest-suburban Illinois city field, mean near $489. Palatine and Inverness are neighboring strings, not subsets. Repeat gifts add rows. Illinois state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $23,229,659 with 47,498 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Barrington, Illinois, should keep Barrington, Rhode Island, and Chicago off the sentence unless they add those objects on purpose. The live Barrington table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $23,229,659 or 47,498 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $489 as division only. Illinois state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Barrington code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Palatine and Inverness remain other strings. The 47,498-line count still is not a headcount of Barrington people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Barrington, IL?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BARRINGTON, IL total $23,229,659 across 47,498 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not Barrington, Rhode Island. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Barrington, Illinois or Barrington, Rhode Island?

This extract is BARRINGTON with state IL: 47,498 lines and $23,229,659. Barrington, RI, would be a different city key. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 47,498 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Barrington total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BARRINGTON with state IL. Office addresses and mail that list Barrington can be part of $23,229,659 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 47,498-line count follows the same rule.

Are Barrington numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,229,659 and 47,498 lines for BARRINGTON, IL. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from IL are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $489 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.