Evanston, IL political money — 2008 FEC cycle

Itemized gifts from Evanston, IL tagged 2008

This packet’s only cycle dollars are $139,750. Its only cycle volume is 153 contributions. Its only city lifetime dollars are $57,567,344. Derived share: 0.24% of the city total in 2008. Derived remainder: $57,427,594. Derived mean: about $913 per line. No other dollar amounts appear because none are in the facts.

The join is not a ranking of Evanston versus peer cities. It is not a safety ranking, a wealth ranking, or a turnout ranking. It is an FEC city-and-cycle aggregate. The 2008 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2007 from 2008.

Separating Evanston from the rest of Illinois

Evanston in Illinois is one geographic key. The 2008 cycle is one time key. Together they yield $139,750. The city without the year is $57,567,344. The year without the city is a national cycle page, not a number in this packet. Do not paste a national cycle total into this article.

Evanston is stored as EVANSTON in Illinois. Chicago, Skokie, and Wilmette stay on their own city pages. Readers comparing Evanston to a neighbor should open both city hubs rather than treating this 2008 cell as a city ranking.

Odd-year receipts still inside the 2008 tag

Volume 153 belongs to 2008 only. Do not add contribution counts from other Evanston cycle pages into this count. Dollar figure $139,750 likewise belongs to 2008 only. The lifetime city total $57,567,344 already includes this window; adding $139,750 to $57,567,344 would double-count 2008.

The correct comparison is $139,750 inside $57,567,344, about 0.24%, with $57,427,594 in the other stored windows.

What a reader should not infer from $139,750

Independent expenditures mentioning a candidate are not individual contributions and are not inside $139,750. Super PAC spending is not inside $139,750 unless it arrived as an itemized individual receipt that also matched the city and cycle filters — and even then this aggregate does not label the committee type. Keep committee-type pages separate. Keep award pages separate.

Reading paths: city, cycle, state, ties

Print citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle; city EVANSTON, state IL, cycle 2008, total $139,750, contributions 153; city all-cycle total $57,567,344. Display names: Evanston, IL and 2008 FEC cycle. Join kind: city-cycle. Canonical path /ties/il-evanston-2008-donations/.

The overlap in one paragraph

Evanston, IL × 2008 = $139,750 on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts (153 contributions). City key lifetime $57,567,344 (0.24% in this window). Evanston is stored as EVANSTON in Illinois. Chicago, Skokie, and Wilmette stay on their own city pages. The 2008 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2007 from 2008. No donor names. No award recipients. No claim that gifts fund federal spending. Internal links: /cities/il-evanston/, /election-cycles/2008/, /states/IL/, /ties/. Restating without new facts: Evanston, IL in 2008 is $139,750 from 153 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $57,567,344 across cycles, so this window is about 0.24% and other windows hold $57,427,594. Arithmetic mean per line is about $913. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2008 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $139,750: donor city Evanston, IL and FEC cycle 2008, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 153 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other Evanston cycle pages. City lifetime money $57,567,344 already includes the 2008 window; do not add $139,750 to $57,567,344.

Evanston, IL remains one donor-city string on FEC.gov. Cycle 2008 remains one even-year tag. Together they produce $139,750 from 153 itemized individual contributions. The city key still stores $57,567,344 when every stored cycle is included, so 2008 is about 0.24% of that running total and $57,427,594 sits in other windows. Those other windows are not listed here and are not estimated. Mean line size about $913 is $139,750 divided by 153, an arithmetic mean rather than a median.

Questions

How much did Evanston donors give in 2008?

Quote $139,750 for Evanston, IL in 2008, produced by 153 itemized contributions. Do not quote $57,567,344 as the 2008 amount. $57,567,344 is the city key across cycles. The join exists because the city table and the cycle table share those receipts.

What share of Evanston FEC money is 2008?

Share language on this page always means $139,750 as a fraction of $57,567,344 (about 0.24%). It never means a fraction of all FEC dollars in 2008. If you need a national cycle share, you need a number this packet does not contain.

Is the 2008 cell the same as Evanston 2012?

Exact-string matching applies. EVANSTON in IL is in; other strings are out. Evanston is stored as EVANSTON in Illinois. Chicago, Skokie, and Wilmette stay on their own city pages. That is why a handmade map of “greater Evanston” can disagree with $139,750 without either source being “wrong.”

Where are the Evanston and 2008 overlay pages?

City overlay /cities/il-evanston/ holds $57,567,344 across cycles. Cycle overlay /election-cycles/2008/ is the 2008 window nationwide. This page is only their overlap at Evanston, IL: $139,750. State hub /states/IL/ and ties index /ties/ complete the internal link set.