FLOSSMOOR, IL: $24.9M on 24,398 FEC receipts

24,398 lines carrying $24,863,074

Flossmoor shows 24,398 itemizations behind $24,863,074. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to volume books that post similar dollars on 70,000-plus rows. Committee receipts that list a Flossmoor address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Cook County’s Flossmoor string is separate from Homewood, Chicago Heights, and Olympia Fields on the FEC city key. Totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents. Read $24,863,074 as tagged federal receipts, not as what Flossmoor residents gave. The 24,398 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

A mean near $1,019 is the shape of this extract. It does not prove a typical gift. Named receipts on the Flossmoor FEC page are the next click for researchers who need committee labels.

Why FLOSSMOOR on the receipt is not a census of Flossmoor

Searchers often want “how much did people in Flossmoor give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FLOSSMOOR, IL total $24,863,074 across 24,398 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim, especially on a high-mean book.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,863,074. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Flossmoor itemized book

$24,863,074 is not spending by Flossmoor candidates. A candidate who lives in Flossmoor can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged FLOSSMOOR, IL can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $1,019 does not describe a median resident of Flossmoor. Means move with a few large lines, and this packet’s line count leaves room for that effect.

Postal confusion with Homewood, Chicago Heights, or Olympia Fields is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,863,074 counts rows that stored FLOSSMOOR, IL. 24,398 lines. About $1,019 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Flossmoor versus Chicago on the FEC tape

Flossmoor is a south-suburban string, not a Chicago merge. 24,398 lines produce $24,863,074, a mean near $1,019. That line count is not a unique-donor count.

Comparing Flossmoor’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 Flossmoor total of $24,863,074 does not absorb Homewood, Chicago Heights, or Chicago. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State IL stays on the citation so FLOSSMOOR, IL is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in IL

24,398 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 Flossmoor 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 Flossmoor 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 $24,863,074

A mean of about $1,019 is division of $24,863,074 by 24,398. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Flossmoor.

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

Flossmoor’s $24,863,074 across 24,398 contributions is a south-suburban Cook County city field, mean near $1,019. Homewood and Chicago Heights are neighboring strings, not subsets. Cook County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Illinois state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,863,074 with 24,398 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Flossmoor should keep Cook County and Chicago off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Flossmoor table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list; on a 24,398-line book those names matter more than on a volume file. A later FEC extract can move $24,863,074 or 24,398 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $1,019 as division only. Illinois state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Flossmoor code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Homewood and Chicago Heights remain other strings. The 24,398-line count still is not a headcount of Flossmoor people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Flossmoor, IL?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FLOSSMOOR, IL total $24,863,074 across 24,398 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 a census of people who live in Flossmoor. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Why is Flossmoor’s average line near $1,019?

LobbyVault counts 24,398 itemized contributions for FLOSSMOOR, IL against $24,863,074. Division produces a mean near $1,019. That is arithmetic, not a typical household gift. A lower line count can be dominated by a few large receipts. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 24,398 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Flossmoor total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FLOSSMOOR with state IL. Office addresses and mail that list Flossmoor can be part of $24,863,074 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 24,398-line count follows the same rule.

Are Flossmoor numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,863,074 and 24,398 lines for FLOSSMOOR, 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 $1,019 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.