Oak Brook, IL political money — 2014 cycle

A midterm election cycle filtered to Oak Brook, IL

Presidential cycles include a presidential general election; midterm cycles do not. That is a calendar classification, not a finding about Oak Brook voters. $164,064 is still just the itemized overlap of OAK BROOK and 2014. 62 rows is a modest itemized file. Mean size is about $2,646. None of those facts explains why filers gave.

Relative to $27,513,396, 2014 is 0.60% (a thin slice of the citywide book). The other 99.4% of the city book, $27,349,332, sits in other even-year windows. Percentages here use the city aggregate only. National cycle totals are not in the packet.

Geography stored as OAK BROOK

Oak Brook sits in DuPage County, Illinois. Oak Park, Hinsdale, and Chicago are other city strings even when the commute story overlaps. Filers type the city. LobbyVault does not recode a suburb into a central city or a neighborhood into a Census place. A donor who typed a nearby name is not in $164,064 even if mail service looks similar.

The Oak Brook, IL hub remains the all-cycle view ($27,513,396). Illinois campaign finance remains the state view. The 2014 election cycle remains the national two-year view. This tie page is the filter where those stories meet.

Recipient location is not in these facts. Money itemized from a IL city can support committees that file from other states. Do not read $164,064 as a map of Illinois races.

Itemized only

Both $164,064 and $27,513,396 omit unitemized gifts. They omit independent expenditures. They omit state-office campaigns. They omit federal awards. Mixing any of those tables with this join invents a headline FEC.gov did not publish.

62 is a line count. Repeat contributors add lines. Unique-donor census figures are not here and are not estimated. All FEC ties points to other city-cycle intersections built from the same method.

Correlation is not causation

Placing Oak Brook next to 2014 does not mean the city caused the cycle or the cycle caused the city book. Two columns matched. Amended filings can move the dollars. If live hubs disagree with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls. Source: FEC.gov.

Itemization is a threshold rule, not a taste judgment. Gifts that never reached the FEC itemization line never enter $164,064 and never enter $27,513,396. Independent expenditures are disclosed on other forms. Committee-to-committee transfers are another table. State-office campaigns in Illinois file under state law. USAspending obligations are a different statute. Stacking any of those omitted tables onto $164,064 would publish a total the Commission did not publish for this city-cycle join.

Doors out of the Oak Brook × 2014 page

Use Oak Brook, IL for the city without a year filter, the 2014 election cycle for the national window, Illinois campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Those four links are the intended next steps. This file does not list donor names or award recipients.

Operational definition: contributor city OAK BROOK in IL during election cycle 2014 equals $164,064 across 62 itemized individual contribution records. The same city label across every cycle in this extract equals $27,513,396. Subtracting the cycle from the book leaves $27,349,332 in other even-year windows. Those three dollar figures and the row count are the entire numeric inventory for this page. FEC.gov is the source. No donor names, committee IDs, occupation strings, or award recipients appear in the packet, so none are invented in this prose.

The Oak Brook, IL city hub, the 2014 election cycle hub, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties are the four internal doors. The city hub answers the all-cycle question ($27,513,396). The cycle hub answers the national two-year question. The state hub answers the Illinois roll-up, which already contains Oak Brook when the same extract is used. All FEC ties lists sibling city-cycle pages. This URL is only the intersection of OAK BROOK and 2014.

Questions

How much did Oak Brook, IL donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Oak Brook, IL total $164,064 in the 2014 cycle, across 62 contribution records. The same city label totals $27,513,396 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.60% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Oak Brook, IL city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $27,513,396 covers every cycle in the table for OAK BROOK. The 2014 filter is $164,064 from 62 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $27,349,332. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Oak Brook, IL 2014 donations stay in Illinois?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Oak Brook, IL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $164,064 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 Oak Brook, IL contributions were itemized in 2014?

62 itemized contribution records sum to $164,064. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,646 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.