What did FEC.gov record from Oak Brook, IL to ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city OAK BROOK and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $414,723 in this extract. That is the join, not Oak Brook, IL's all-committee book of $27,513,396. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does LobbyVault recode OAK BROOK to a Census place?

No. OAK BROOK is the exact stored city string with state IL. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $414,723. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Oak Brook, IL hub for the all-committee book of $27,513,396.

Is 1.51% of Oak Brook, IL money going to ACTBLUE?

$414,723 is 1.51% of the $27,513,396 Oak Brook, IL city book. The leftover $27,098,673 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 1.51% into a ranking of civic preference.

Is $414,723 independent expenditure spending by ACTBLUE?

No. The source note states these aggregates are not independent expenditures. $414,723 is itemized individual receipts storing city OAK BROOK and committee C00401224. IE files, if any, live elsewhere on FEC.gov. Cite FEC.gov for $414,723 from OAK BROOK to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $27,513,396 for the Oak Brook, IL city book.

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FEC join: Oak Brook, IL and ACTBLUE

Donor city OAK BROOK and committee C00401224 meet at $414,723 on the itemized tape. ACTBLUE is the disclosed name. Oak Brook, IL's all-recipient total is $27,513,396, leaving $27,098,673 on other IDs. These figures are FEC.gov Schedule A city×committee aggregates, not USAspending awards and not independent expenditures.

Key figures

$414,723 is the Oak Brook, IL × ACTBLUE (C00401224) itemized join.
$27,513,396 is the all-committee Oak Brook, IL book; this committee is 1.51% of that book.
Leftover $27,098,673 under the OAK BROOK city string went to other committees.
FEC.gov Schedule A city×committee aggregates; C00401224 must travel with ACTBLUE.
If the live hub or overlay disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Headline cell $414,723

FEC.gov itemized individual contributions are grouped by donor city and recipient committee. For OAK BROOK, IL × ACTBLUE, the published overlap is $414,723. Cycle splits, donor names, and receipt counts are absent from the packet. Do not invent a headcount from the dollar figure.

ACTBLUE is the stored name on C00401224. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them. Do not invent donor names. The committee title is a recipient label, not a roster of contributors in Oak Brook. OAK BROOK is not Barrington and is not Rockford. ACTBLUE received $414,723 from the Oak Brook city string against a $27,513,396 book. Chicago and other Cook or DuPage place names are other keys.

IL city string OAK BROOK

The city book $27,513,396 is not a budget. It is a sum of Schedule A lines that stored this city string. PAC addresses, joint-fundraising addresses, and household streets that stored OAK BROOK follow the same rule. Leftover after C00401224: $27,098,673.

Oak Brook is displayed for readers; OAK BROOK is the grouping key. Titles use Oak Brook, IL. The leftover $27,098,673 is $27,513,396 minus $414,723 on this extract only. The Illinois hub is a different roll-up.

Recipient ID C00401224

C00401224 is disclosed as ACTBLUE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $414,723 is itemized individual receipts storing city OAK BROOK and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Committee hubs roll up every city. This join does not. $414,723 is not the committee's national total. Researchers who need the all-city figure must leave this URL for the ACTBLUE hub.

Oak Brook, IL remainder after ACTBLUE

1.51% of $27,513,396 is $414,723 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Oak Brook, IL as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $27,513,396 city book went to other committees. Even when 1.51% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $27,098,673 under the OAK BROOK city string went to other committees. The Oak Brook, IL hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store OAK BROOK. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Caveats on motive and spending

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $414,723. Illinois state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $414,723 as proof that Oak Brook, IL funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Illinois. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $414,723 to federal spending in Illinois.

Keep Oak Brook and ACTBLUE in one sentence

Internal links go to Oak Brook, IL, ACTBLUE, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $27,513,396 book and the committees that received the leftover $27,098,673. The committee page holds C00401224 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Oak Brook, IL and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $414,723 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. Cite $414,723, $27,513,396, 1.51%, leftover $27,098,673, and C00401224.

Questions

What did FEC.gov record from Oak Brook, IL to ACTBLUE?: Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city OAK BROOK and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $414,723 in this extract. That is the join, not Oak Brook, IL's all-committee book of $27,513,396. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.
Does LobbyVault recode OAK BROOK to a Census place?: No. OAK BROOK is the exact stored city string with state IL. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $414,723. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Oak Brook, IL hub for the all-committee book of $27,513,396.
Is 1.51% of Oak Brook, IL money going to ACTBLUE?: $414,723 is 1.51% of the $27,513,396 Oak Brook, IL city book. The leftover $27,098,673 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 1.51% into a ranking of civic preference.
Is $414,723 independent expenditure spending by ACTBLUE?: No. The source note states these aggregates are not independent expenditures. $414,723 is itemized individual receipts storing city OAK BROOK and committee C00401224. IE files, if any, live elsewhere on FEC.gov. Cite FEC.gov for $414,723 from OAK BROOK to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $27,513,396 for the Oak Brook, IL city book.

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by donor city and recipient committee. Not independent expenditures.