The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
One hundred and four million dollars — that’s how much money sat in the 3,507 campaign funds controlled by state and local politicians and political-action committees at the end of 2010, Illinois State Board of Elections records show.Where else could a guy who sits on the city council have more money than the Governor?
The richest campaign fund: Rahm Emanuel’s. The Chicago mayoral candidate ended the year with more than $8.3 million available to spend on things like commercials, polling and his campaign staff.
Not far behind at No. 2 on the richest-campaign list was Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th), with three of the 50 richest political funds statewide, together totaling $8.1 million.
Gov. Quinn ended the year with $689,678 in the bank after his November election.
