Self-Employed political contributions from Chicago, IL

How Self-Employed meets Chicago

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Chicago, IL. The other is self-employment occupation string Self-Employed (stored as SELF-EMPLOYED). $26,000 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $1,009,249,407 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 1,612,148 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 25 donors, not a census of everyone in Chicago who ever worked in a related trade.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Chicago, IL city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Self-Employed industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Illinois campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

37 contributions from 25 donors produced $26,000. Repeat gifts add receipts; 25 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Self-Employed workers in Chicago. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $703; per donor, about $1,040. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

What the Chicago city book holds

Chicago indexes $1,009,249,407 ($1.0 billion rounded) on 1,612,148 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $1,009,249,407. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Chicago can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 1,612,148.

Illinois campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Chicago. Do not treat $1,009,249,407 as the IL state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $1,009,249,407. State-office campaigns in Illinois file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Self-Employed slice inside Chicago

Inside Chicago, receipts tagged Self-Employed total $26,000 on 37 lines from 25 donors. That is under 0.1% of $1,009,249,407. About $703 per receipt is $26,000 divided by 37. About $1,040 per harvested donor is $26,000 divided by 25. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.

Self-Employed is a self-typed occupation string, not a license roster and not a Census class of independent contractors. Nearby labels such as SELF, SELF EMPLOYED, and SELF-EMPLOYED can be separate keys depending on punctuation. $26,000 counts only rows that stored this exact string with city CHICAGO.

Repeat gifts, household pairs, and spelling variants of Self-Employed that did not match this key never enter $26,000. Repeat gifts that did match add to 37 without necessarily adding to 25. Keep line count and donor count attached to their nouns when citing Chicago.

What this join is not

It is not a ranking of Chicago neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Self-Employed money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.

It is not Self-Employed nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately, and this packet does not harvest that nationwide integer. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing.

under 0.1% is $26,000 divided by $1,009,249,407. Rounding the city total to $1.0 billion does not create a second extract. Use $1,009,249,407 in a table. Use $1.0 billion only as a headline form of the same integer. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Self-Employed “controls” Chicago politics.

How to cite the Chicago × Self-Employed facts

Citation template: self-employment occupation string Self-Employed, contributor city Chicago, IL, $26,000 on 37 itemized individual contributions from 25 donors, against a city-wide $1,009,249,407 on 1,612,148 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Chicago, IL hub, the Self-Employed industry page, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $26,000 to $1,009,249,407; the first number is already inside the second.

Using the Chicago and Self-Employed hubs together

The Chicago, IL hub is the unfiltered city index: $1,009,249,407 on 1,612,148 lines. The Self-Employed hub is the grouping without this city’s filter; this packet does not print that nationwide integer, so do not guess it from $26,000. Illinois campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Chicago. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $26,000 into a federal award.

If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 25 donors from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Chicago, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Self-Employed in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Chicago and Self-Employed, $26,000, 37 receipts, 25 donors.

Questions

How much did Self-Employed donors in Chicago contribute?

Itemized individual contributions tagged Self-Employed and Chicago, IL total $26,000 across 37 receipts from 25 donors on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Chicago’s $1,009,249,407 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $26,000 the full Chicago political-money total?

No. Chicago indexes $1,009,249,407 across 1,612,148 itemized contributions. $26,000 is only the Self-Employed employer/occupation slice inside that city. Other strings, unitemized gifts, and state-office filings sit outside the join. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Does Self-Employed money in Chicago fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $26,000 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Chicago. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where are the Chicago and Self-Employed live tables?

Use the Chicago, IL city hub, the Self-Employed industry hub, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Original itemizations remain on FEC.gov. This guide quotes $26,000, 37 receipts, 25 donors, and $1,009,249,407.