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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
Dollar figures are still computing and reflect best estimates while the corrected-financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

Congressional District 8

Congressional district · IL-08

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Geography intelligence — demographics, elections and money at a glance. Metrics shown are those available at this level; more light up as coverage and the money reconciliation land.

Geography

Land area (sq mi) 102
Candidates (all-time) 80

Demographics (CVAP)

Citizen voting-age pop (CVAP) 495,534
White CVAP 63.4%
Black CVAP 5.2%
Hispanic CVAP 17.5%
Asian CVAP 13.2%
Non-white CVAP 36.6%

Money in — to this geography's candidates

Candidates receiving funds 9
Committee→candidate links 900
Contributions (count) 162,041
Total received by candidates $14,742,037

These dollar figures are computing and reflect best estimates on an interim (2026-03-11) data vintage while financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

Top committee funders

to this geography's candidates · conduits excluded
CommitteeContributedContributionsCandidates
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Political Action Committee $127,633 106 1
American Association For Justice Political Action Committee (Aaj Pac) $40,500 27 2
National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee / American College Of Emergency Physicians $39,000 26 1
The Boeing Company Political Action Committee $26,500 25 1
At&T Inc. Employee Federal Political Action Committee (At&T Employee Federal Pac) $31,000 24 1
American Postal Workers Union Committee On Political Action $37,500 23 1
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $27,000 22 1
Political Action Committee Of The American Association Of Orthopaedic Surgeons--Pac Of Aaos $29,000 22 2

The biggest committee funders of this geography's candidates, by contribution volume. Pass-through conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are excluded — the real giver there is the upstream individual, not the platform. Dollar figures are computing / best estimates on the interim vintage.

Candidates

mapped to this geography
CandidatePartyOfficeCycles
Briseno, Jorge Alberto IND House 2024,2026
Rice, Mark REP House 2024,2026
Patel, Abhijit Mr. REP House 2024
Dargis, Christopher Bryant REP House 2022,2024,2026
Ahmed, Junaid DEM House 2022,2024
Faheem, Mohammed DEM House 2022,2024
Kopsaftis, Peter REP House 2022,2024
Kolodziej, Karen REP House 2022,2024
Wood, Phillip Owen REP House 2022
Hussain, Inam Dr DEM House 2020
Olson, William DEM House 2020
Diganvker, Jitendra Jd REP House 2018,2020
Jhingan, Vandana REP House 2018
Straw, Andrew U. D. DIS House 2018
Krishnamoorthi, S. Raja DEM House 2016,2018,2020,2022,2024,2026
Goel, Manju REP House 2016,2018,2014
Evans, Richard REP House 2016,2018,2012,2014
Jacobs, Gregory S REP House 2016,2018,2010,2012,2014
Fraser, William E IND House 2016,2018,2010
Scheurer, Randi DEM House 2016,2018,2008,2010,2012,2014
Duckworth, L. Tammy DEM House 2016,2018,2006,2008,2010,2012,2014
Cullerton, Tom DEM House 2016,2018
Dicianni, Peter REP House 2016,2018
Kaifesh, Lawrence Joseph REP House 2016,2014
Geissler, Christopher Todd REP House 2016,2010,2012,2014

Every candidate whose office maps to this geography (money-dark here — open a candidate for their detail). List capped at 25.