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Maybe people have figured out it’s possible to buy a public office, or maybe the cost of public service is going up like the price of bread and gas. It could be that lots of people have decided they’d really like to spend their extra thousands on campaign mailings, or perhaps they’ve just realized their biggest fans are themselves. Whatever the cause, this year’s local primaries have inspired a bunch of citizens to dip into their own bank accounts to finance election campaigns–and not just for sexy offices like recorder of deeds.
Anita Alvarez
State’s attorney
$640,000.00
James A. Shapiro
Circuit court judge
$359,000.00
Jay Paul Deratany
Board of Review
$350,000.00
Mariyana Spyropoulos
Water reclamation district commissioner
$268,359.00
Dean Maragos
$186,937.00
Robert Milan
$150,000.00
Larry Suffredin
$120,000.00
Jonathan Bedi
State senate, 5th District
$105,000.00
Ed Smith
Recorder of deeds
$100,000.00
James Byrne
$ 65,000.00
Gideon Baum
$ 50,700.62
Kenny Johnson
State house, 26th District
$ 50,000.00
Eugene Moore
$ 43,800.00
Rosaire Marie Hall
$ 33,265.00
Sandi Jackson
Democratic committeeman, 7th Ward
$ 25,000.00
Heather Steans
State senate, 7th District
Derrick David Stinson
$ 22,655.00
Tommy Brewer
$ 20,000.00
Frank Avila
$ 12,655.00
Paul Chadha
$ 10,000.00
John O. Steele
Appellate judge
AmySue Mertens
State senate, 5th District.
$ 6,080.41
Phillip Jackson
$ 5,330.00
Rich Bradley
State senate, 20th District
$ 5,000.00
