Connections
One map of who is connected to whom in the Chicago City Council's public records: alderpersons, committees, key legislation, campaign donors and their employers, lobbyists, and the clients who hire them. Every line is a documented relationship: a committee seat, a sponsorship, a divided vote, a campaign contribution, a lobbying registration, or a lobbying filing matched to legislation.
The map holds 14,400 people, organizations, and pieces of legislation and 35,303 relationships; this page shows the 673 most connected. Positions in the network are learned from the relationships themselves, so the page can show which members, donors, or lobbyists sit in the most similar places: funded by the same donors, lobbied by the same clients, voting alongside the same colleagues.
Members whose networks look most alike
- Daniel La Spata: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Jeylú B. Gutiérrez, Andre Vasquez Jr.
- Brian Hopkins: most like Scott Waguespack, Walter R. Burnett, Samantha Nugent
- Pat Dowell: most like Lamont J. Robinson, William E. Hall, Desmon C. Yancy
- Lamont J. Robinson: most like William E. Hall, Ronnie L. Mosley, Monique L. Scott
- Desmon C. Yancy: most like Gregory I. Mitchell, Derrick G. Curtis, Jeylú B. Gutiérrez
- William E. Hall: most like Ronnie L. Mosley, Derrick G. Curtis, Gregory I. Mitchell
- Gregory I. Mitchell: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Ronnie L. Mosley, Emma Mitts
- Michelle A. Harris: most like Gregory I. Mitchell, Derrick G. Curtis, Monique L. Scott
- Anthony Beale: most like Gregory I. Mitchell, Monique L. Scott, William E. Hall
- Peter Chico: most like Silvana Tabares, Gregory I. Mitchell, Ruth Cruz
- Nicole T. Lee: most like Andre Vasquez Jr., Jeylú B. Gutiérrez, Daniel La Spata
- Julia M. Ramirez: most like Jeylú B. Gutiérrez, Jeanette B. Taylor, Angela Clay
- Marty Quinn: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Silvana Tabares, Emma Mitts
- Jeylú B. Gutiérrez: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Andre Vasquez Jr., Silvana Tabares
- Raymond A. Lopez: most like Silvana Tabares, Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn
- Stephanie D. Coleman: most like William E. Hall, Derrick G. Curtis, Ronnie L. Mosley
- David H. Moore: most like Stephanie D. Coleman, William E. Hall, Monique L. Scott
- Derrick G. Curtis: most like Marty Quinn, Silvana Tabares, Emma Mitts
- Matthew J. O'Shea: most like Silvana Tabares, Marty Quinn, Derrick G. Curtis
- Jeanette B. Taylor: most like Angela Clay, Carlos Ramírez-Rosa, Julia M. Ramirez
- Ronnie L. Mosley: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn, William E. Hall
- Michael D. Rodriguez: most like Jeylú B. Gutiérrez, Julia M. Ramirez, Andre Vasquez Jr.
- Silvana Tabares: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn, Emma Mitts
- Monique L. Scott: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Gregory I. Mitchell, Emma Mitts
- Byron Sigcho-López: most like Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, Anthony J. Quezada, Carlos Ramírez-Rosa
- Jessica L. Fuentes: most like Carlos Ramírez-Rosa, Jeanette B. Taylor, Julia M. Ramirez
- Walter R. Burnett: most like Monique L. Scott, Silvana Tabares, Scott Waguespack
- Jason C. Ervin: most like Emma Mitts, Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn
- Chris Taliaferro: most like Emma Mitts, Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn
- Ruth Cruz: most like Jeylú B. Gutiérrez, Derrick G. Curtis, Ronnie L. Mosley
- Felix Cardona Jr.: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Silvana Tabares, Jeylú B. Gutiérrez
- Scott Waguespack: most like Silvana Tabares, Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn
- Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez: most like Carlos Ramírez-Rosa, Anthony J. Quezada, Angela Clay
- William Conway: most like Brian Hopkins, Walter R. Burnett, Timothy R. Knudsen
- Anthony J. Quezada: most like Carlos Ramírez-Rosa, Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, Angela Clay
- Gilbert Villegas: most like Silvana Tabares, Jeylú B. Gutiérrez, Derrick G. Curtis
- Emma Mitts: most like Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn, Silvana Tabares
- Nicholas Sposato: most like Silvana Tabares, Derrick G. Curtis, Marty Quinn
- Samantha Nugent: most like Marty Quinn, Silvana Tabares, Emma Mitts
- Andre Vasquez Jr.: most like Marty Quinn, Jeylú B. Gutiérrez, Derrick G. Curtis
- Anthony V. Napolitano: most like Nicholas Sposato, Silvana Tabares, Marty Quinn
- Brendan Reilly: most like Brian Hopkins, William Conway, Timothy R. Knudsen
- Timothy R. Knudsen: most like Bennett R. Lawson, Silvana Tabares, Nicholas Sposato
- Bennett R. Lawson: most like Silvana Tabares, Samantha Nugent, Marty Quinn
- James M. Gardiner: most like Nicholas Sposato, Marty Quinn, Emma Mitts
- Angela Clay: most like Carlos Ramírez-Rosa, Jeanette B. Taylor, Jeylú B. Gutiérrez
- Matthew J. Martin: most like Jeanette B. Taylor, Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth, Desmon C. Yancy
- Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth: most like Angela Clay, Jeanette B. Taylor, Daniel La Spata
- Maria E. Hadden: most like Marty Quinn, Andre Vasquez Jr., Derrick G. Curtis
- Debra L. Silverstein: most like Bennett R. Lawson, Samantha Nugent, Marty Quinn
Most connected donors
- Chicago Land Operators Joint Labor Management PAC (36 connections)
- Cozen O'Connor (41 connections)
- Teamsters Volunteers in Politics (35 connections)
- SEIU Healthcare IL IN PAC (27 connections)
- Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council PAC (30 connections)
- LIUNA Chicago Laborers District Council PAC (23 connections)
- Jack Wuest (32 connections)
- I.U.O.E Local 399 Political Education Fund (26 connections)
- SEIU IL Council PAC Fund (21 connections)
- Georges & Synowiecki (30 connections)
Most connected employers of donors
- City Of Chicago (52 connections)
- Alvarez and Associates (24 connections)
- Grosvenor Capital Management (17 connections)
- State of Illinois (33 connections)
- Alternative Schools Network (19 connections)
- Daley Strategy (16 connections)
- Thomas R Raines Attorney at Law LLC (14 connections)
- Lettuce Entertain You (16 connections)
- Baker Development Corp (13 connections)
- unknown (18 connections)
Most connected lobbyists
- Patrick Carey (96 connections)
- Michael Alvarez (100 connections)
- John Dunn (90 connections)
- Thomas Moore (198 connections)
- Rolando Acosta (128 connections)
- Tyler Manic (131 connections)
- John Daley (78 connections)
- Thomas Raines (63 connections)
- Langdon Neal (106 connections)
- Gabriela Manzanares Jule (47 connections)
Most connected lobbying clients
- Illinois Restaurant Association (35 connections)
- Comcast Corp. (25 connections)
- Seiu Local 1 (31 connections)
- Chicago Federation Of Labor (27 connections)
- Lyft, Inc. (29 connections)
- Pepsico., Inc (29 connections)
- Chicago Teachers Union (20 connections)
- Norfolk Southern Corporation (23 connections)
- Amazon.Com Services LLC (26 connections)
- Grubhub Inc. (22 connections)
How it is built
Nodes and typed edges from public records (committee rosters, sponsorships, divided roll calls, ISBE contributions since 2019, Board of Ethics lobbying since 2023, lobbying matched to legislation). Embeddings: spectral embedding of the normalized adjacency with one- and two-step walks (64 dimensions); similar nodes are nearest by cosine. Communities: weighted label propagation. Layout: force-directed. Connections are not evidence of wrongdoing.
Data: graph.json. API: `/api/v1/graph`, `/api/v1/graph/nodes/{id}`, and `/api/v1/graph/nodes/{id}/similar` (see the developer guide).