Federal contributions from ZIP 60615: $14.3M

Seventy-one thousand Hyde Park lines

$14,334,452 divided by 71,413 is about $201 per itemized line. That modest mean next to 71,413 rows is the shape of this code. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count. Do not treat 71,413 as a census of Hyde Park.

60637, 60653, and 60649 are different South Side roll-ups. Campus-adjacent offices and household streets both add rows when they type 60615. LobbyVault does not interpret $14,334,452 as a ranking of South Side civic intensity. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 60615.

Hyde Park is not all of the South Side

A university-area suite and a residential street can share 60615. $14,334,452 follows the form. Open the ZIP 60615 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 71,413 rows are households. Illinois state-office filings are a different dataset.

Adding 60615 to other South Side ZIPs and calling the sum a South Side FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,334,452 for 60615 only. Compare line volume on the all-ZIP directory.

What stays outside $14,334,452

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Illinois state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Chicago race. Cite $14,334,452 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 60615. The mean of about $201 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 60615

The ZIP 60615 FEC page holds $14,334,452 and 71,413 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count.

What a 60615 total is for, and what it is not for

$14,334,452 is for citing itemized federal receipts tagged 60615. 71,413 is for citing how many such lines the index holds. Hyde Park Chicago is for telling a reader which mail key they opened. Cook County is not a substitute geography for a homemade metro sum. $14.3M is a rounded form of $14,334,452. Use the exact figure in a table; use $14.3M in a sentence that needs a short headline.

The total is not for counting unique people. This packet has no donor headcount. It is not for Illinois state-office activity. It is not for unitemized federal gifts. It is not a license to add 60637, 60653, and 60649 into $14,334,452. Those are other keys.

About $201 per line is a derived ratio from the two harvested numbers. Treat it as a shape note: 60615 may look different from a ZIP with the same dollars and twice the rows. Open the live hub for the current index. This prose is a snapshot. If the hub and this file disagree, FEC.gov and the live index win.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 60615 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Hyde Park Chicago. $14,334,452 is the itemized-dollar total. 71,413 is the itemized-line total. $14.3M is $14,334,452 rounded. About $201 is those dollars divided by those lines. Cook County is map context. 60637, 60653, and 60649 are other keys. Illinois state-office activity is out of scope. Unitemized federal gifts are out of scope. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count, so do not cite one. Open the ZIP 60615 FEC page for the live index, the all-ZIP directory for peers, and the donor directory for names on itemized receipts. If those tools and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls. Cite the ZIP, the dollars, and the line count together.

LobbyVault publishes this 60615 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/60615/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-60615-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,334,452 and 71,413 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.3M into a forecast. Readers who want the row list should use the hub. Readers who want the explanation should stay on the guide. The ZIP remains the five-digit contributor field on FEC itemizations, indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. A complete citation names ZIP 60615, $14,334,452, 71,413 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 60615?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 60615 total $14,334,452 across 71,413 contributions. The compact headline is $14.3M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Hyde Park. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 60615?

LobbyVault counts 71,413 itemized contributions for ZIP 60615. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts can add rows. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $14,334,452. The mean of about $201 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 60615 cover all of Chicago’s South Side?

No. 60615 is the Hyde Park mail key. Other South Side ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 60615 can be part of $14,334,452. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear. This packet still does not publish a unique-donor count.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 60615 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,334,452 and 71,413 lines for ZIP 60615. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Illinois state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.