Elections · U.S. House, District 7 · Illinois
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Raised for this seat
$722K
Through June 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$113K
Through June 30, 2026
On the November ballot
Ford faces Chad Koppie for this seat on November 3, 2026.
The general-election ballot as recorded October 12, 2026, not a prediction. Official candidate list: Illinois State Board of Elections. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.
Where the money comes from
- Small donors
- 5%$38K
- Large donors
- 62%$443K
- PACs
- 8%$57K
- Party
- --
- Self-funding
- 24%$175K
- Other
- 1%$9.4K
Separately, $2.5M in independent expenditures was reported opposing this candidate by outside committees. That money is not the candidate's receipts and is not part of the mix above.
Receipts reported through June 30, 2026. Source: FEC.
How to vote in Illinois
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 28 days before (16 days if online), or same-day through Election Day in person.
The district they want to represent
- People
- 744K
- Median household income
- $83K
- Unemployment
- 8.5%
- Living below the poverty line
- 18.0%
- Without health insurance
- 8.2%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
Against the field for this seat
Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, incumbent first and then by name, never in money order.
- Richard Boykin$457K
- Melissa Conyears-Ervin$825K
- Thomas Fisher$928K
- La Shawn Fordthis page$722K
- Jason Friedman$2.5M
- Chad Koppie$58K
- Reed Showalter$356K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. Showing 7 of the 11 campaigns that hold the seat, are on the ballot, or have $25,000 raised or outside spending, not counting campaigns that ended before any ballot; every filing is on the race page.
Spending to support them
No committee has filed independent spending in this direction.
Spending to oppose them
$2.5M- Fairshake$2.5MCryptocurrency industryCryptocurrency industry
How these directions are decided
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC. The supporting or opposing direction is each committee's own declared filing, not an interpretation, and a group spending against a candidate is not necessarily spending for their opponent. Outside money is not the campaign's money and is never added to what they raised.
Record in office
Ford does not hold a seat in Congress now, so there is no current voting record, cosponsorships or committee service to show here.
That absence is not a position for or against anything.
What the campaign says, on fordforcongress.comCandidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Portrait: US Department of Education via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.
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