Northbrook, IL political money — 2008 cycle

How 2008 sits inside Northbrook, IL

Start with the intersection: $189,690 from 119 itemized rows where city = NORTHBROOK (IL) and cycle = 2008. The city dimension without the year is $32,678,132. 0.58% of that stack is 2008; 99.4% ($32,488,442) is not. A modest slice of the city stack of Northbrook's own dollars.

The Northbrook, IL hub still folds in other even-year windows. The 2008 hub still folds in other cities. This ties slug keeps both. Matching a city string to a cycle tag does not prove intent, ideology, or a Illinois recipient committee.

2008 is filed as a presidential two-year FEC cycle that contains a presidential general. The cycle type does not explain $189,690. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What $32,678,132 includes

$32,678,132 is every cycle under Northbrook, IL in this extract, including $189,690 from 2008 and $32,488,442 from the rest. It is not a headcount. Illinois pages still show cities besides Northbrook.

The stored city is Northbrook, a north-suburban Illinois municipality. Chicago, Glenview, and Northfield are different city strings. State IL stays on the citation so Northbrook is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Keep IL on the key so $32,678,132 is not mixed with a homonym. Stack $32,678,132 and slice $189,690 (0.58%) are different facts. City hub for the unfiltered city; this page for Northbrook in 2008. Recipients need not be in Northbrook or in Illinois.

FEC cycle 2008 with a Northbrook filter

A federal cycle is two years. 2008 is the tag, not a January-only sample. Northbrook, IL in that window: $189,690, 119 records, about $1,594 per record. The mean is dollars divided by rows. No median. No unique-donor count.

National 2008 coverage still lists other cities; Illinois coverage still lists other years. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are other tables. 119 itemized rows is a moderate absolute count of receipts for this join. Linked city, cycle, state, and ties pages hold the broader views.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $189,690 is the 2008 cell for Northbrook, IL: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 119 records. $32,678,132 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $32,488,442 in other even-year windows. Citing $32,678,132 as a 2008 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $189,690 as the lifetime Northbrook total mixes the join into the city hub. 119 is cycleContributions for 2008 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 119 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.58% is dollars only — $189,690 divided by $32,678,132 — not a share of Illinois and not a share of the national 2008 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $189,690 or $32,678,132. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

2008 versus other Northbrook cycles

0.58% = $189,690 / $32,678,132; 99.4% = $32,488,442 / $32,678,132. About 0.58% of Northbrook, IL itemized individual dollars in this aggregate carry cycle 2008; about 99.4% do not. Those percentages are not shares of Illinois, the national 2008 cycle, or eligible voters.

Dollar share 0.58% and row count 119 are not interchangeable. The packet has no all-cycle row total, so a row percentage is not computed. 0.58% is not Northbrook's share of nationwide 2008 itemized receipts.

Arithmetic mean and missing medians

119 itemized contributions totaling $189,690 is the cell. Repeat gifts and NORTHBROOK spelling variants can occur. Unique people are not counted. Northbrook is not ranked against other Illinois cities.

$1,594 uses $189,690 and 119 only. Occupation and committee joins are separate. The $189,690 is not listed by recipient. Other city strings in the same metro are other pages.

Source limits and adjacent pages

No ranking of Northbrook, no wave label for 2008, no proxy for Illinois opinion. Contributor city is not campaign city. A IL receipt does not mean the money supported a Illinois candidate. Amendments can change $189,690 or $32,678,132. Prefer live hubs if they disagree.

Not in this file: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, federal spending awards. See Northbrook, IL; 2008 election cycle; Illinois campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the 2008 itemized total from Northbrook, IL?

$189,690 in FEC itemized individual contributions, 119 records. The all-cycle city figure is $32,678,132, so 2008 is 0.58% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov.

Is $32,678,132 the amount Northbrook gave in 2008?

No. $32,678,132 covers every cycle for NORTHBROOK in IL. 2008 is $189,690 (119 gifts). Other cycles hold $32,488,442. Use the city hub for the stack and this page for 2008.

Did 2008 gifts from Northbrook go to Illinois campaigns only?

The facts do not allocate recipients. Donor city is Northbrook, IL. Committees can be anywhere the FEC files. $189,690 is not split by office, party, or committee state.

How should readers treat the 119 contribution count?

As 119 itemized rows summing to $189,690, about $1,594 per row. Not unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. No unique-person total is in the packet.