Lobbyist Data - Contributions

Political contributions by registered lobbyists, who must report every political contribution made to any candidate for City office, any elected official of the City, and any official or employee of the City seeking election to an office other that a City office during the reporting period.

See http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/ethics/provdrs/lobby.html for more information on the Board of Ethics' role in regulating and reporting on lobbying in Chicago.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"cityofchicago/lobbyist-data-contributions-p9p7-vfqc\".\"lobbyist_data_contributions\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.