Highland Park, IL political money — 2008 cycle

Highland Park, IL and the 2008 presidential cycle

$167,135 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city HIGHLAND PARK with state IL, and election cycle 2008. The match is $167,135 across 105 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $48,130,538. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.35% of Highland Park, IL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $47,963,403 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Highland Park, IL. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under HIGHLAND PARK. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Highland Park, IL with every other donor city in the United States. The 105 rows and $167,135 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not an Illinois state-campaign total, a North Shore ranking, or a Chicago rollup. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

HIGHLAND PARK as a Lake County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city HIGHLAND PARK in Illinois totals $48.1 million ($48,130,538). $167,135 is 0.35% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Highland Park; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $167,135 to $48,130,538; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $48,130,538 − $167,135 = $47,963,403 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Lake County, Illinois, on the North Shore. Highwood, Deerfield, and Lake Forest are other FEC city strings, not rolled into HIGHLAND PARK. State IL stays on the citation so Highland Park is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $48.1 million is the IL key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 two-year window on Highland Park lines

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Highland Park, IL filers itemized $167,135 on 105 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,592 per itemized gift ($167,135 ÷ 105). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 105-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this suburb string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Illinois still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Highland Park × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Illinois campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $167,135 into the state hub a second time.

2008 inside the Highland Park city book

0.35% of $48,130,538 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.35% of Highland Park, IL’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $167,135 divided by $48,130,538 and $47,963,403 divided by $48,130,538. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.35%) and row volume (105 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Chicago is a neighboring city key. Filers who typed CHICAGO are not recoded into Highland Park. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.35% as Highland Park’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

105 rows produce a mean, not a median

105 itemized contributions totaling $167,135 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of HIGHLAND PARK. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Highland Park versus other Illinois cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,592 uses only the two numbers in the join: $167,135 and 105 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $167,135 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed HIGHLAND PARK is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Highland Park.

What Highland Park–2008 does not prove

This page does not rank Highland Park against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Illinois. Two columns matched. A IL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Illinois candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Highland Park, IL hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Highland Park, New Jersey, would be a different state key. The packet state is IL.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Highland Park, IL, the 2008 election cycle, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Glencoe and Winnetka are other North Shore strings. They are not folded into HIGHLAND PARK. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Highland Park, IL donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Highland Park, IL total $167,135 in the 2008 cycle, across 105 contribution records. The same city label totals $48,130,538 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.35% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Highland Park’s city aggregate only 2008 money?

No. The city aggregate of $48,130,538 covers every cycle in the table for HIGHLAND PARK. The 2008 filter is $167,135 from 105 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $47,963,403. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 Highland Park itemized gifts stay with Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Highland Park, IL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $167,135 by office, state of the committee, or party. A IL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Illinois races.

How many Highland Park, IL contributions were itemized in 2008?

105 itemized contribution records sum to $167,135. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,592 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.