Attorney political contributions from Chicago, IL

How Attorney meets Chicago, IL on the FEC tape

$98,650 is the overlap of two filer-entered fields: industry/employer grouping ATTORNEY and contributor city CHICAGO with state IL. LobbyVault keeps a Chicago, IL city hub and an Attorney industry hub. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is all industries in Chicago. The industry hub is that string across cities. This page is only both filters at once.

177 contributions from 133 donors produced $98,650. Repeat gifts add receipts; 133 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Attorney workers in Chicago. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $557; per donor, about $742. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

ATTORNEY is an exact employer/industry string on the itemization, not a NAICS sector and not every person who works in a related job. Other law-firm names, “LAWYER,” partnership titles, and blank employer rows are other keys. $98,650 counts only rows that stored this string in Chicago, IL.

The Chicago side of the Attorney join

Chicago, IL’s all-industry itemized book in this extract is $1.0 billion across 1,612,148 contributions. $98,650 is under 0.1% of that city book. A thin share is expected when the industry key is an exact string: most Chicago receipts use other employer labels. Do not treat under 0.1% as “the legal sector’s weight in Chicago” unless the packet listed a sector roll-up. It lists ATTORNEY only.

The stored city sits in Cook County, Illinois. Evanston, Oak Park, and Naperville are not absorbed into CHICAGO. Illinois campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $98,650 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-industry pages. None of them converts $98,650 into spending by Chicago candidates.

The Attorney side outside Chicago

The Attorney industry hub is the same stored string in every city, not a Illinois-only table. $98,650 is the Chicago, IL slice of that string. A donor in another city who stored ATTORNEY is not in this join. A donor in Chicago who stored a different employer string is not in this join either.

This packet does not name committees, parties, or cycles for the Attorney × Chicago, IL overlap. Open the live Attorney page and the live Chicago, IL page for those breakdowns if the extract publishes them. This prose stays on $98,650, 177 receipts, 133 donors, and the $1.0 billion city book.

Quote the join with both nouns in the same sentence so a downstream citation cannot drop a side. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot.

What the Attorney × Chicago dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $98,650. Illinois state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file. City labels and industry labels are both filer-entered; LobbyVault does not recode CHICAGO into a Census place or ATTORNEY into a standardized occupation. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this pair of strings follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $98,650 as proof that Attorney “controls” Chicago politics. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. If the live hubs disagree with $98,650 or 133 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Contribution lines can cluster in a few ZIPs or spread across many. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the city hub rather than guessing a postal split from the city string alone.

Using Chicago, IL and Attorney links without mixing statutes

Internal links go to Chicago, IL, Attorney, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $98,650 to federal spending in Illinois.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Attorney and Chicago, IL. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $98,650 across 177 receipts from 133 donors is the only overlap this extract published.

Questions

How much did Attorney donors in Chicago, IL give?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing industry ATTORNEY and city CHICAGO total $98,650 across 177 receipts from 133 donors in this extract. That is the join, not Chicago, IL’s all-industry book of $1.0 billion. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does Attorney in Chicago include every related job title?

No. ATTORNEY is the exact stored string. Other employer spellings are other keys and are omitted from $98,650. 133 donors and 177 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not map the field to a standardized occupation list.

What share of Chicago, IL itemized money is Attorney?

$98,650 is under 0.1% of the $1.0 billion Chicago, IL city book (1,612,148 city-field contributions). A thin share usually means other employer strings dominate the city tape, not that Attorney workers are absent. Quote both dollars. Do not upgrade under 0.1% into a sector ranking.

Are the Attorney Chicago figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $98,650, 177 receipts, 133 donors for the join, and $1.0 billion for the city string. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.