About

Frank Calabrese is a Chicago based consultant focused on elections, GIS mapping, communications, political research, and political strategy. Frank has worked on dozens of political campaigns in the Chicago area, from aldermanic races to the Chicago mayoral election.  He is also a GIS mapping analyst whose work has been cited nationally and he was hired to help redistrict the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago, and the City of Aurora.

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Frank has been cited as a political and redistricting expert frequently in local and national media, to include the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Government, POLITICO, Jewish Insider, ABC 7 Chicago, WTTW (PBS Chicago), WGN-TV, Crain’s Chicago Business, WGN Radio 720, St. Louis Public Radio, WQRF-TV (FOX Rockford), WCIA-TV (Champaign, IL), The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL), The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL), The Pentagraph (Bloomington, IL) and  Herald & Review (Decatur, IL).

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Frank is an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Western Illinois University, with a degrees in History and Geographic Information Science (GIS).

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Email Frank at frank@bigshouldersconsulting.com