How does 2008 compare with the rest of Rockford giving?

2008 is $164,362, 1.1% of the $15,552,687 Rockford, IL book. Other cycles hold $15,388,325 (98.9%). Those shares use this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not shares of Illinois or of the national 2008 cycle, which are not in these facts.

Are the 258 2008 rows unique Rockford residents?

No. 258 is a receipt count. The same household can appear more than once, and an office or joint-fundraising address stored as ROCKFORD can sit beside a home address. LobbyVault does not convert the city field into a Census residency test. Unique-donor counts are not in the packet.

Do these Rockford dollars fund federal awards?

No. $164,362 is FEC itemized individual contributions. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different table. This packet has no award dollars, contractor names, or recipient UEIs. A shared geography does not turn campaign receipts into federal spending.

What source backs the Rockford, IL 2008 figures?

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. This snapshot stores $164,362 and 258 lines for ROCKFORD in 2008, plus $15,552,687 for the city string across cycles. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

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Rockford, IL political money — 2008 cycle

Inside Rockford, IL's $15,552,687 all-cycle itemized book, the 2008 window is $164,362 — 1.1% of that city stack, across 258 FEC contribution records. The remainder, $15,388,325, sits in other cycles under the same ROCKFORD label. This page is the city-and-cycle join, sourced from FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, not a restatement of either hub.

Key figures

1.1% of Rockford, IL's $15,552,687 itemized book was filed in the 2008 cycle ($164,362).
258 itemized lines average about $637 each.
State IL stays on the key so Rockford is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.
Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures sit outside $164,362.

2008's share of the Rockford book

1.1% is $164,362 divided by $15,552,687. 98.9% is $15,388,325 divided by $15,552,687. Those two percentages use only the city aggregate as the denominator. They are not Rockford's share of Illinois itemized giving and not Rockford's share of the national 2008 cycle. Those other denominators are not in this packet and are not invented here.

The join still has a row count: 258 itemized gifts, a relatively large itemized file for this city string. Dollar share and row volume can tell different stories; this file reports both and ranks neither. Mean size is about $637 per row. 2008 is a presidential election cycle, which labels the two-year FEC window and does not interpret $164,362.

Two hubs, one intersection for Rockford, IL

Open Rockford, IL for every cycle stored under ROCKFORD. Open the 2008 election cycle for every donor city in that window. The 258 rows totaling $164,362 exist only where both filters are true. Treating the city hub as a 2008 page, or the cycle hub as a Rockford page, collapses dimensions the FEC file kept separate.

Rockford sits in Winnebago County, Illinois. Chicago, Naperville, and Rockton are other Illinois city fields, not parents of this total. Keep state IL on the citation. A repeated city name under another postal code is a different FEC key and is not folded into $15,552,687.

Donor city is the address field on the individual receipt. Committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system. This join does not allocate $164,362 by office, party, or recipient state.

The Illinois context without double-counting

Illinois campaign finance already includes Rockford when the same extract is used. Adding $164,362 on top of a state total counts the same receipts twice. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages; none of them converts donations into USAspending obligations.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and state-office filings sit outside $164,362 and outside $15,552,687. Both published dollars are itemized federal individual contributions.

Rows are not residents

258 is a relatively large itemized file for this city string. Repeat dates, multiple committees, and spelling variants of ROCKFORD can add lines without adding people. Unique-person counts are not in the facts. Employer and occupation strings are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break $164,362 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Internal links on this file are Rockford, IL, the 2008 election cycle, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four. Do not paste $164,362 into a USAspending award story. FEC individual contributions and federal obligations are collected under different statutes, on different forms, for different filers. This packet has no award dollars and no contractor names.

What the join is not

The page does not rank Rockford as more or less political than other places, and it does not treat itemized dollars as public opinion in Illinois. Amended filings can move $164,362 or $15,552,687. If the live Rockford, IL hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls. Source: FEC.gov.

This page does not rank Rockford 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: city ROCKFORD and cycle 2008. The product of that match is $164,362 on 258 rows. Public-opinion claims, turnout claims, and wealth claims would require fields this packet does not have.

Filer spelling splits metros. A contributor who typed ROCKFORD is inside $164,362. A contributor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Rockford. Rockford sits in Winnebago County, Illinois. Chicago, Naperville, and Rockton are other Illinois city fields, not parents of this total. Treat 258 as lines that stored this string in 2008, not as a labor-force or voter-file headcount of Rockford, IL.

Questions

How does 2008 compare with the rest of Rockford giving?: 2008 is $164,362, 1.1% of the $15,552,687 Rockford, IL book. Other cycles hold $15,388,325 (98.9%). Those shares use this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not shares of Illinois or of the national 2008 cycle, which are not in these facts.
Are the 258 2008 rows unique Rockford residents?: No. 258 is a receipt count. The same household can appear more than once, and an office or joint-fundraising address stored as ROCKFORD can sit beside a home address. LobbyVault does not convert the city field into a Census residency test. Unique-donor counts are not in the packet.
Do these Rockford dollars fund federal awards?: No. $164,362 is FEC itemized individual contributions. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different table. This packet has no award dollars, contractor names, or recipient UEIs. A shared geography does not turn campaign receipts into federal spending.
What source backs the Rockford, IL 2008 figures?: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. This snapshot stores $164,362 and 258 lines for ROCKFORD in 2008, plus $15,552,687 for the city string across cycles. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.