Chicago Board of Trade political contributions from Chicago, IL

How Chicago Board of Trade meets Chicago

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Chicago, IL. The other is employer name Chicago Board of Trade (stored as CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE). $26,556 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $1,009,249,407 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 1,612,148 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 48 donors, not a census of everyone in Chicago who ever worked in a related trade.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Chicago, IL city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Chicago Board of Trade industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Illinois campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

69 contributions from 48 donors produced $26,556. Repeat gifts add receipts; 48 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Chicago Board of Trade workers in Chicago. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $385; per donor, about $553. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

What the Chicago city book holds

Chicago indexes $1,009,249,407 ($1.0 billion rounded) on 1,612,148 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $1,009,249,407. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Chicago can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 1,612,148.

Illinois campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Chicago. Do not treat $1,009,249,407 as the IL state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $1,009,249,407. State-office campaigns in Illinois file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Chicago Board of Trade slice inside Chicago

Inside Chicago, receipts tagged Chicago Board of Trade total $26,556 on 69 lines from 48 donors. That is under 0.1% of $1,009,249,407. About $385 per receipt is $26,556 divided by 69. About $553 per harvested donor is $26,556 divided by 48. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.

Chicago Board of Trade is a filer-entered employer string, not a NAICS sector and not every affiliate, predecessor name, or related partnership. Other spellings of the same organization are other keys and are omitted from $26,556. A donor in Chicago who stored a different employer never enters this join. A donor outside Chicago who stored CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE belongs on the industry hub, not here.

Repeat gifts, household pairs, and spelling variants of Chicago Board of Trade that did not match this key never enter $26,556. Repeat gifts that did match add to 69 without necessarily adding to 48. Keep line count and donor count attached to their nouns when citing Chicago.

What this join is not

It is not a ranking of Chicago neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Chicago Board of Trade money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.

It is not Chicago Board of Trade nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately, and this packet does not harvest that nationwide integer. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing.

under 0.1% is $26,556 divided by $1,009,249,407. Rounding the city total to $1.0 billion does not create a second extract. Use $1,009,249,407 in a table. Use $1.0 billion only as a headline form of the same integer. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Chicago Board of Trade “controls” Chicago politics.

How to cite the Chicago × Chicago Board of Trade facts

Citation template: employer name Chicago Board of Trade, contributor city Chicago, IL, $26,556 on 69 itemized individual contributions from 48 donors, against a city-wide $1,009,249,407 on 1,612,148 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Chicago, IL hub, the Chicago Board of Trade industry page, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $26,556 to $1,009,249,407; the first number is already inside the second.

Using the Chicago and Chicago Board of Trade hubs together

The Chicago, IL hub is the unfiltered city index: $1,009,249,407 on 1,612,148 lines. The Chicago Board of Trade hub is the grouping without this city’s filter; this packet does not print that nationwide integer, so do not guess it from $26,556. Illinois campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Chicago. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $26,556 into a federal award.

If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 48 donors from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Chicago, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Chicago Board of Trade in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Chicago and Chicago Board of Trade, $26,556, 69 receipts, 48 donors.

Questions

How much did Chicago Board of Trade donors in Chicago contribute?

Itemized individual contributions tagged Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago, IL total $26,556 across 69 receipts from 48 donors on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Chicago’s $1,009,249,407 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $26,556 the full Chicago political-money total?

No. Chicago indexes $1,009,249,407 across 1,612,148 itemized contributions. $26,556 is only the Chicago Board of Trade employer/occupation slice inside that city. Other strings, unitemized gifts, and state-office filings sit outside the join. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Does Chicago Board of Trade money in Chicago fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $26,556 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Chicago. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where are the Chicago and Chicago Board of Trade live tables?

Use the Chicago, IL city hub, the Chicago Board of Trade industry hub, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Original itemizations remain on FEC.gov. This guide quotes $26,556, 69 receipts, 48 donors, and $1,009,249,407.