{"id":259821,"date":"2010-02-01T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=15203"},"modified":"2010-02-01T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:27:41","slug":"dupage-chairman-hopefuls-raise-almost-500000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259821","title":{"rendered":"DuPage chairman hopefuls raise almost $500,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The four Republicans running for DuPage County Board chairman in Tuesday’s primary combined to collect nearly $500,000 for their campaigns.<\/p>\n

The lion’s share of that was raised by state Sen. Dan Cronin, whose campaign finance reports indicate he has collected $262,625 in cash contributions and in-kind donations on top of the nearly $80,000 he started with.<\/p>\n

None of the other three came close to Cronin’s tally. They raised a combined $177,177 in addition to the money they started with, according to finance reports available on the state election board’s Web site. <\/span><\/p>\n

Together, all four candidates have spent $507,331, according to the same reports.<\/p>\n

Cronin is the race’s biggest spender. He entered the campaign with nearly $80,000 in his war chest and by last week had spent more than $300,000 in an attempt to secure his party’s nomination in Tuesday’s primary. He loaned his campaign $30,000 as well.<\/p>\n

Cronin’s coffers were filled by a number of Illinois businesses and political action committees, but his largest single donations of $10,000 each came from Chicago-based engineering firm Knight Partners and the Inland Real Estate Group PAC out of Oak Brook.<\/p>\n

County board member Debra Olson and state Sen. Carole Pankau each spent more than $80,000 on the race, according to the finance reports. Olson slightly edged Pankau in spending, but raised just $42,432.67 during the campaign compared to Pankau’s $80,138.90.<\/p>\n

Olson entered the race with $60,000 in loans she had made to herself, which made up nearly half of the $130,000 she started the campaign with.<\/p>\n

Her husband donated another $10,000 to the campaign Tuesday. Fellow county board member JR McBride was Olson’s largest single donor with $2,150, the financial reports say.<\/p>\n

Pankau loaned her campaign $8,000, but raised funds from an array of corporate, political and union committees as well. Her son and daughter each donated $4,000, and Bloomingdale Republican state Rep. Franco Coladipietro’s campaign donated $5,000.<\/p>\n

Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso contributions have almost doubled in the past two weeks. He has raised $54,606 so far, according to the state finance reports. He loaned his campaign $15,000 late last week and received his largest single contribution in the amount of $5,000 on Jan. 20 from Oak Brook-based development firm Inter Continental Real Estate.<\/p>\n

The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face Democrat Carole Cheney in November. Cheney’s campaign has yet to file a report with the state election board.<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The four Republicans running for DuPage County Board chairman in Tuesday’s primary combined to collect nearly $500,000 for their campaigns. The lion’s share of that was raised by state Sen. Dan Cronin, whose campaign finance reports indicate he has collected $262,625 in cash contributions and in-kind donations on top of the nearly $80,000 he started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}