Lake Forest, IL political money in the 2014 election cycle

How Lake Forest meets the 2014 election cycle

$274,005 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city LAKE FOREST with state IL, and election cycle 2014. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Lake Forest, IL city hub and the 2014 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Lake Forest, IL in 2014.

81 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored LAKE FOREST is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $3,383 ($274,005 ÷ 81). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $274,005. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $274,005 for the 2014 slice and $157.4 million for the Lake Forest, IL book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Lake Forest, IL side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city LAKE FOREST in Illinois totals $157.4 million ($157,374,022). $274,005 is 0.2% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Lake Forest; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $157,100,017 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Lake Forest, IL table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Lake County, Illinois. Highland Park and Lake Bluff are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into LAKE FOREST. State IL stays on the citation so Lake Forest is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $157.4 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 2014 cycle side for Illinois filers in Lake Forest

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 81 Lake Forest, IL lines in that window produced $274,005. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here. A midterm label marks the even-year window that includes a congressional midterm, not a finding about turnout in Lake Forest.

Illinois campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Lake Forest. Do not add $274,005 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $274,005 into spending by Lake Forest candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $274,005 and the $157.4 million city book.

What $274,005 does not measure

$274,005 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city LAKE FOREST. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Illinois file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Lake Forest can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed LAKE FOREST is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Lake Forest. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 81 as lines that stored this string in 2014. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Lake Forest and 2014 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $274,005 beside $157.4 million does not mean 2014 caused the city book or that Lake Forest drove the 2014 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Lake Forest, IL hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Lake Forest, IL, the 2014 election cycle, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $274,005 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in Illinois.

A 0.2% cut of the Lake Forest stack

0.2% of $157.4 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $274,005 of the $157,374,022 city stack was tagged 2014, and $157,100,017 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $274,005 divided by $157,374,022 and $157,100,017 divided by $157,374,022. They are not shares of Illinois totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.2%) and row volume (81 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.2% as Lake Forest's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Lake Forest × 2014 only: $274,005, 81 receipts, mean about $3,383. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Lake Forest, IL donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city LAKE FOREST and cycle 2014 total $274,005 across 81 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Lake Forest, IL book of $157.4 million. Unitemized gifts and Illinois state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $274,005 all of Lake Forest's federal political money?

No. $157.4 million ($157,374,022) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city LAKE FOREST in IL. The 2014 slice is $274,005, 0.2% of that book. Other cycles hold $157,100,017. 81 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Lake Forest, IL 2014 donations stay in Illinois?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Lake Forest, IL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $274,005 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 Lake Forest, IL contributions were itemized in 2014?

81 itemized contribution records sum to $274,005. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,383 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.