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Candidates › IL-09 race › 2025–2026
DemocraticU.S. House, IL-09Illinois
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FEC filings, Apr 1, 2025 to Mar 17, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00903740
98¢ of every dollar raised has been spent across 5 reports ($27.5K of $28.2K). Cash on hand went from $986 on Jun 30, 2025 to $311 on Mar 17, 2026.
| Report | Raised in the period | Spent in the period | Cash on hand at its close |
|---|---|---|---|
| JULY QUARTERLY 2025 through Jun 30, 2025 | $24,509 | $23,524 | $986 |
| OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2025 through Sep 30, 2025 | $294 | $556 | $724 |
| YEAR-END 2025 through Dec 31, 2025 | $2,011 | $3,186 | $0 |
| PRE-PRIMARY 2026 through Feb 25, 2026 | $1,263 | $105 | $341 |
| TERMINATION REPORT 2026 through Mar 17, 2026 | $133 | $163 | $311 |
Each report’s own period, as filed with the FEC; a report filed again counts once, as its latest copy.
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Each loan as the campaign’s report through Mar 17, 2026 lists it, with what is still owed. A loan from an earlier cycle can appear here, and one repaid in full drops off the report, so the list need not add up to the row.
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 3 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 7 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $2.6K.
Total reported receipts $28,211
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. FEC filings through Mar 17, 2026.
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0% of the money placed by state came from inside IL: $0 of $1.4K.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1 contribution · 69% | $1,000 |
| 5 contributions · 31% | $440 |
By the state each donor wrote on the filing, across 2 states and territories. Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized, so they cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
| Employer as filed | Amount |
|---|---|
| Written instead of an employer · 1 contribution · 100% of ranked | $1,000 |
A further $1,631 came from donors whose answer names no employer (blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($553) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 58% to named individuals, 8.3% to organizations, 12% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 21% not itemized in the filings.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| Person · President/managing Partner, Linden Capital Partners · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $1.2M |
| Person · Investments, GCM Grosvenor · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $701.9K |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership and 1 more | $639.6K |
| Person · Portfolio Manager, Capital Group · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $569.6K |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership |
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| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1 payment · 73% of all spending | $20,000 |
| 2 payments · 5.9% of all spending | $1,622 |
| 1 payment · 5.4% of all spending | $1,500 |
| 1 payment · 3.6% of all spending | $979 |
| 1 payment · 2.2% of all spending | $611 |
| 6 payments · 1.6% of all spending | $447 |
| 1 payment · 1.3% of all spending | $348 |
| 1 payment · 0.5% of all spending | $138 |
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.
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Lost · 748 votes (0.6%) · 10 of 15 · Full results ↗
Every contest for this seat that named this candidate, most recent last; a result is shown once the race is called. Election dates and results from civicAPI (civicapi.org). civicAPI aggregates results from Secretaries of State and equivalent election bodies, and makes its own race calls. civicapi.org ↗
Primary March 17, 2026 · 2 polls
Each dot is a poll. A line is drawn from the third nonpartisan poll; there are 2 so far. How polls are read
Daniel Biss won by 3.6 points. The final poll had Daniel Biss +4, within a point of the result.
| Poll | Daniel Biss | Kat Abughazaleh | Lead | vs. result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Policy Pollingended Mar 10 | 24% | 20% | Daniel Biss +4 | +0.4 |
| Median of the final polls | Daniel Biss +4 | +0.4 | ||
| Result | 29.5% | 25.9% | Daniel Biss +3.6 |
March 17, 2026 · Result (unofficial, 95% reporting) · Each pollster's last poll ending in the 21 days before the vote, read for the two leading finishers; the median leaves out polls a side paid for
Poll data from The New York Times, licensed CC BY 4.0 · Updated November 10, 2026 · 8 polls paid for by a party or campaign are left out
Official FEC filing record for the current cycle. The priorities they publish are quoted from their own site, in their order.
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| Occupation as filed | Amount |
|---|---|
| Written instead of an occupation · 1 contribution · 100% of ranked | $1,000 |
A further $1,631 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($553) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
| $342K |
| Person · Retired · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $327.5K |
| Person · Manager, Capital Group · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $284.8K |
| Person · Attorney, Lavin and Gedville PC · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $284.8K |
| Person · Executive, G2 Gaming, LLC · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $148.5K |
| Person · Founder, Bloomberg Inc. · behind 314 Action Fund and EDW Action Fund | $147.1K |
| Person · Physician, Self · behind Leading Democracy Inc | $135.7K |
| Organization · behind Elect Chicago Women AKA ECW and Chicago Progressive Partnership | $131.2K |
Read for all 16 groups that spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.
Total itemized disbursements $25,643
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Mar 17, 2026.
All 14 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.