1. Built on existing research, created a database of campaign finance in Illinois for 1990-1994.
  2. Created a process of public education through which the role of money in politics is placed on the public agenda in Illinois, so that public awareness is sufficently heightened to make serious discussion of campaign finance reform possible.
  3. Make analysis of campaign finance more accessible to opinion leaders, the news media and the public.
  4. Increase the interest and expertise of the new media in dealing with campaign finance issues and campaign finance documents.
  5. Increase the interest of Illinois legislators, constituional officers and their staffs, as well as other major players in the Illinois electoral and legislative process, in making campaign finance issues a topic of serious discussion in the public debate.
  6. Issued a report in January 1997 that included recommendations regarding Illinois campaign finance laws.
  7. Made the issue of campaign finance reform a serious topic of debate during the 1996 general election season, and now a topic on the legislative agenda in the 1997 session of the Illinois General Assembly.