Federal contributions from ZIP 60640: $15.0M

Seventy-five thousand lines, not seventy-five thousand people

$14,993,700 divided by 75,097 is about $200 per itemized line. That is a small mean next to ZIPs with similar dollars and far fewer rows. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count. Do not treat 75,097 as a census of Uptown.

Chicago uses dozens of ZIPs. 60640 is one North Side code. Lakeview, Edgewater, and Lincoln Square keys are separate roll-ups. LobbyVault does not interpret $14,993,700 as a ranking of North Side civic intensity. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 60640.

Uptown mail versus a citywide Chicago total

A filer who lists a Broadway or Sheridan suite and a filer who lists a courtyard building both land in 60640 when that is what they typed. $14,993,700 is that bucket. Named receipts on the ZIP 60640 FEC page show which committees appear. This guide will not invent a household-versus-committee split among the 75,097 rows.

Adding 60640 to other Chicago ZIPs and calling the sum a Chicago FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,993,700 for 60640 only. Compare line volume on the all-ZIP directory; 75,097 is the distinctive shape here.

What stays off the $14,993,700 roll-up

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Illinois state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a North Side race. Cite $14,993,700 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 60640.

The mean of about $200 is arithmetic. A long list of modest itemized gifts will pull the average down. The packet has no gift-size distribution. Amendments can restate large transfers without touching most of the 75,097 small lines.

60640 beside 60613, 60660, and 60657

Neighboring North Side codes are different FEC keys. Keep them separate unless you are building a documented cluster. Compare 75,097 against those peers rather than against a suburban ZIP with 25,000 lines. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Live hub for 60640

The ZIP 60640 FEC page holds $14,993,700 and 75,097 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. A citation names ZIP 60640, $14,993,700, 75,097 contributions, and FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Reading 60640 next to the rest of the ZIP directory

The all-ZIP directory exists so 60640 can be placed among other five-digit keys without turning $14,993,700 into a metro story. Uptown Chicago sits in Cook County. Peers include 60613, 60660, and 60657. Each peer has its own total. 75,097 lines at $14,993,700 ($15.0M) is the local shape. A peer with similar dollars and half the rows will show a higher mean; that contrast is the point of keeping keys separate.

Do not build a Cook County FEC total by addition unless you list every ZIP you included. Illinois state-office filings still sit outside every one of those keys. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside them too. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count for 60640, so a Cook County donor census is also out of reach from these facts.

Citation template: contributor ZIP 60640, $14,993,700, 75,097 itemized contributions, FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Add that the mean is about $200 only if you also say it is dollars divided by lines. Then send the reader to the ZIP 60640 FEC page for names and to the donor directory for person-level itemizations.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 60640 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Uptown Chicago. $14,993,700 is the itemized-dollar total. 75,097 is the itemized-line total. $15.0M is $14,993,700 rounded. About $200 is those dollars divided by those lines. Cook County is map context. 60613, 60660, and 60657 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 60640 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.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 60640?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 60640 total $14,993,700 across 75,097 contributions. The compact headline is $15.0M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Uptown. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 60640?

LobbyVault counts 75,097 itemized contributions for ZIP 60640. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. The mean of about $200 follows from dividing $14,993,700 by that line count. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure.

Does ZIP 60640 cover all of Chicago’s North Side?

No. 60640 is one Uptown-area mail key. Other North Side ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees and office addresses that file 60640 can be part of $14,993,700. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide or residential-only 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 60640 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,993,700 and 75,097 lines for ZIP 60640. 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.