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Last Updated September 2007

Top 20 Contributors for 2007 (as of December 31, 2006)

Name Amount
IL Fed of Teachers/Chi Teachers Union $214,000.00
Comcast Cable $175,000.00
Duchossois Companies and Family $161,000.00
IL Hospital Assn $151,000.00
IL State Medical Society $151,000.00
IL Assn of Realtors RPAC $143,000.00
AT&T SBC $136,000.00
Assoc Beer Dist IL ABDI $111,000.00
IL Bankers Assn IL Bank PAC $101,000.00
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw $98,000.00
IL Education Assn IPACE $87,000.00
Credit Union PAC CUPAC $84,000.00
Exelon PAC ComEd PAC $81,000.00
Assoc Fire Fighters of IL $77,000.00
IL Optometric Assn PAC $77,000.00
IL Laborers Legislative Committee $65,000.00
Caterpillar, Inc. $62,000.00
IL Home Builders PAC $59,000.00
Community BancPAC $54,000.00
AFSCME Council 31 $54,000.00

Top Self Financed Campaigns - Contributors & Loans (as of December 31, 2006)

NameAmount
Gidwitz Family $6,536,000.00
Jim Oberweis Family $3,338,000.00
Giannoulias, Alexis $1,634,000.00
Edwin Eisendrath Family $1,098,000.00
James Morici $309,000.00
Joy Cunningham & Family $306,000.00
William Brady $265,000.00
Randy Hultgren $255,000.00
LaShawn Ford $195,000.00
Emanuel Welch $76,000.00

Top Individual Contributors Non-candidates (as of December 31, 2006)

NameAmount
James Pritzker $1,148,000.00
Frederick Krehbiel $301,000.00
Fred Eychaner $299,000.00
Yuka Gomi & T. Russell Shields $230,000.00
Robert Lozins $201,527.00
Gerald Forsythe $197,000.00
Patrick G. Ryan $111,000.00
Thomas Grusecki $108,000.00
Robert McCormack $105,000.00
Arie Zweig $81,000.00

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