Commodity Broker political contributions from Chicago, IL

How Commodity Broker meets Chicago, IL on the FEC tape

$35,155 is the overlap of two filer-entered fields: industry/employer grouping COMMODITY BROKER and contributor city CHICAGO with state IL. LobbyVault keeps a Chicago, IL city hub and an Commodity Broker 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.

35 contributions from 30 donors produced $35,155. Repeat gifts add receipts; 30 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a census of everyone in Chicago tied to that label. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $1,004; per donor, about $1,172. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

COMMODITY BROKER is an exact employer/industry string on the itemization, not a NAICS sector and not every person who works in a related job. Other spellings, parent-company names, job titles, and blank employer rows are other keys. $35,155 counts only rows that stored this string in Chicago, IL. City labels are filer-entered.

The Chicago side of the Commodity Broker join

Chicago, IL's all-industry itemized book in this extract is $1.0 billion ($1,009,249,407) across 1,612,148 contributions. $35,155 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 sector's weight in Chicago unless the packet listed a sector roll-up. It lists COMMODITY BROKER only.

The stored city sits in Cook County, Illinois. Evanston and Oak Park are other city strings. Illinois campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $35,155 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 $35,155 into spending by Chicago candidates.

The Commodity Broker side outside Chicago

The Commodity Broker industry hub is the same stored string in every city, not a Illinois-only table. $35,155 is the Chicago, IL slice of that string. A donor in another city who stored COMMODITY BROKER is not in this join. A donor in Chicago who stored a different employer string is not in this join either. This packet publishes the industry-side dollars for the grouping as $35,155 with 35 contributions and 30 donors.

This packet does not name committees, parties, or cycles for the Commodity Broker × Chicago, IL overlap. Open the live Commodity Broker page and the live Chicago, IL page for those breakdowns if the extract publishes them. This prose stays on $35,155, 35 receipts, 30 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.

What the Commodity Broker × Chicago dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $35,155. 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 COMMODITY BROKER 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 $35,155 as proof that Commodity Broker controls Chicago politics. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. If the live hubs disagree with $35,155 or 30 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system. Do not treat the 30-donor cluster as a company-town finding or as a count of everyone who ever worked under a related name.

Using Chicago, IL and Commodity Broker links without mixing statutes

Internal links go to Chicago, IL, Commodity Broker, 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 $35,155 to federal spending in Illinois. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Chicago.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Commodity Broker and Chicago, IL. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $35,155 across 35 receipts from 30 donors is the only overlap this extract published. Do not add $35,155 to $1,009,249,407; the first number is already inside the second.

How to cite the Chicago × Commodity Broker facts

Citation template: employer/industry grouping COMMODITY BROKER, contributor city Chicago, IL, $35,155 on 35 itemized individual contributions from 30 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 Commodity Broker 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. If you need cycle cuts of Chicago, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Commodity Broker in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string.

Questions

How much did Commodity Broker donors in Chicago, IL give?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing industry COMMODITY BROKER and city CHICAGO total $35,155 across 35 receipts from 30 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 Commodity Broker in Chicago include every related job title?

No. COMMODITY BROKER is the exact stored string. Other employer spellings are other keys and are omitted from $35,155. 30 donors and 35 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 Commodity Broker?

$35,155 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 the grouping is absent. Quote both dollars. Do not upgrade under 0.1% into a sector ranking.

Do Commodity Broker donations in Chicago fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $35,155 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.