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Statewide Election Spending Summary

By Emily Brosious
@RedLineProject

Posted: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014

Total itemized campaign contributions came in upward of $67 million this election cycle in Illinois, with more than $51 million going to candidates and parties. Republicans received about 46 percent of those contributions with Democrats trailing at nearly 35 percent, according to OpenSecrets at The Center for Responsive Politics.

This Data/Chicago project made possible by 
a journalism grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation

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