About FollowTheMoneyIL.com

FollowTheMoneyIL.com is a civic-tech and data journalism platform for exploring campaign finance, lobbying, and related public records in Illinois.

What This Site Does

The project combines ETL pipelines, normalized database models, and web application tooling so people can search and investigate money-and-influence records with less manual cleanup.

Core records come from official filings and public datasets, including the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE) and the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC).

Illinois Sunshine Attribution

This project uses ETL groundwork from Illinois Sunshine, built by DataMade for Reform for Illinois (formerly Illinois Campaign for Political Reform).

The original Illinois Sunshine project is available under the MIT License. FollowTheMoneyIL.com extends that base with additional data sources, analytics, and product features.

More on the original project: illinoissunshine.org/about/.

Corrections and Questions

If you spot a data issue, attribution issue, or broken link, please use the contact information in the footer.