Distributor political contributions from Chicago, IL
Exact-match rows for DISTRIBUTOR filed with city CHICAGO, IL sum to $15,000 (1 contributions, 1 donor) on FEC.gov tape indexed here. Chicago’s unfiltered city index is $1,009,249,407 ($1.01 billion) on 1,612,148 lines. The employer slice is 0.0015% of the city dollar total. Those figures share a filer-entered city label; they are not a claim that the grouping runs the city’s politics. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.
Key figures
- Distributor in Chicago, IL: $15,000 on 1 receipts from 1 donor.
- Chicago city-wide FEC itemized total: $1,009,249,407 on 1,612,148 contributions.
- The Distributor slice is 0.0015% of Chicago dollars — a labeled subset, not the city book.
- City labels are filer-entered. The join is not a federal-award trail.
- If the donor count is 1, that is a count, not a name.
How Distributor meets Chicago, IL on the FEC tape
$15,000 is the published overlap for stored industry DISTRIBUTOR and stored city CHICAGO, IL. Readable labels on this page are Distributor and Chicago. 1 contributions and 1 donor produced the overlap on FEC.gov itemized individual contributions. Chicago’s unfiltered book is $1,009,249,407 on 1,612,148 lines, 0.0015% of which is this string.
LobbyVault’s city hub and industry hub remain the one-dimension views. This ties page is the two-dimension view. Do not collapse them. Canonical path is /ties/distributor-donors-in-il-chicago/. Arithmetic: about $15,000 per receipt, about $15,000 per harvested donor. Those are $15,000 divided by 1 and by 1. They are not typical gifts, not salaries, and not medians. Repeat itemizations raise the receipt count.
City book for Chicago, IL
1,612,148 city-field contributions total $1,009,249,407. Filer-entered city CHICAGO is the key. Adjacent places with other strings are out. Joint-fundraising addresses that typed Chicago may be in. The packet does not publish unique donors for the whole city, so none are invented from 1,612,148.
The stored city is Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. Evanston and Oak Park are not absorbed into CHICAGO. DISTRIBUTOR is an occupation or employer word as typed, not a NAICS wholesale roll-up and not a named wholesaler. Illinois campaign-finance coverage is statewide (or District-wide). $1,009,249,407 is not that statewide figure. Unitemized federal gifts and Illinois state-office filings sit outside $1,009,249,407.
The Distributor slice inside Chicago
Inside Chicago, receipts tagged DISTRIBUTOR total $15,000 on 1 lines from 1 donor. That is 0.0015% of $1,009,249,407. A Chicago donor with a different employer is not in the slice. An out-of-city donor with this employer is not in the slice. The industry hub is the string without the city filter; this packet does not print that nationwide integer.
One receipt from 1 donor totaling $15,000 is a single-line join inside a $1,009,249,407 Chicago book on 1,612,148 city-field lines. A $15,000 line is the whole intersection. Do not treat one receipt as a distribution-industry census of Chicago.
What the Distributor × Chicago join is not
It is not a ranking of Chicago neighborhoods. It is not proof that Distributor 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 a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet.
One donor and one contribution produced $15,000. That is the thinnest possible itemized join that still has a dollar total. Wholesale, Wholesaler, and named-distributor employers are other keys. This page does not add them. Amendments can move a single large line; reread the live hubs after quarterly filings.
How to cite Distributor in Chicago
Citation template: employer/industry grouping DISTRIBUTOR, contributor city Chicago, IL, $15,000 on 1 itemized individual contributions from 1 donor, against a city-wide $1,009,249,407 on 1,612,148 contributions (0.0015% 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 Distributor 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 $15,000 to $1,009,249,407; the first number is already inside the second. If 1 is 1, that is still a count, not a name.
Using the Chicago and Distributor hubs together
Internal links are not optional decoration. Chicago, IL documents the city dimension. Distributor documents the industry dimension. Illinois campaign finance documents IL. All FEC ties documents that this file is one of many two-table pages. A citation that omits the city or omits Distributor has left the join. None of those pages converts $15,000 into a federal award.
If you need cycle cuts of Chicago, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Distributor in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Chicago and Distributor, $15,000, 1 receipts, 1 donor. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.
Questions
- What did Distributor-labeled donors in Chicago, IL report?
- Itemized individual contributions tagged Distributor and Chicago, IL total $15,000 across 1 receipts from 1 donor on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is 0.0015% of Chicago’s $1,009,249,407 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total and not a USAspending award.
- Is $15,000 the full Chicago political-money total?
- No. Chicago indexes $1,009,249,407 across 1,612,148 itemized contributions. $15,000 is only the Distributor employer/occupation slice inside that city. Other strings, unitemized gifts, and state-office filings sit outside the join. Do not add $15,000 to $1,009,249,407. Filings remain on FEC.gov. This page quotes packet facts only.
- Does Distributor money in Chicago fund federal spending there?
- No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $15,000 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Chicago. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars and names no award recipients. Filings remain on FEC.gov. This page quotes packet facts only.
- Where are the live Chicago and Distributor tables?
- Use the Chicago, IL city hub, the Distributor industry hub, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Original itemizations remain on FEC.gov. This guide quotes $15,000, 1 receipts, 1 donor, and $1,009,249,407. If live hubs disagree, they control. Filings remain on FEC.gov. This page quotes packet facts only.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and employer/industry grouping. City labels are filer-entered.