Lobbyist Data - Lobbyists

Lobbyists registered with the Chicago Board of Ethics since 2012. Due to requirements for lobbyists to re-register and the importance of showing year for most lobbying-related data, the same lobbyist often will have multiple records. 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-lobbyists-tq3e-t5yq\".\"lobbyist_data_lobbyists\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.