* Embattled state Sen. Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago) has disclosed his first campaign contribution since being publicly accused of sexual harassment. He reported a $7,000 contribution from the Chicago Land Operators Joint Labor-Management PAC today. The group also gave $5,000 to Silverstein’s wife Debra, a Chicago alderman.

* Onward. Along with Blair Hull, a firm called 116 Windsor Drive LLC was one of the biggest contributors to Illinois United for Change, which funded a big-money campaign against House Speaker Madigan in the 2016 Democratic primary. That same firm recently contributed $11,100 to Rep. Scott Drury’s attorney general bid. Drury, of course, is not on Team Madigan.

* During the third quarter, Bob Daiber reported raising $16,199 for his gubernatorial campaign, of which $10,000 was a loan to himself. He ended the quarter with $12,021.91 in the bank.

Daiber just filed an A-1 today, so I clicked the link to see… a $5,000 loan from himself.

Props to the guy for sticking with it, I suppose. But… man.

* Meanwhile, as we’ve already discussed, Rep. Jeanne Ives filed a D-1 disclosing her bid for governor yesterday. From the Tribune…

But as with her first round of candidacy petitions that had to be tossed after a typo was found, there may be some issues with the Ives for Illinois campaign fund.

State Board of Elections officials said they were in contact with the Ives campaign over its initial reporting of $267,725 in cash available in the new fund — without disclosing the source of the money.

There also was the question about the Friends of Jeanne Ives fund, which had been used for her legislative campaigns. That fund ended September with $8,488 and has since raised an additional $15,000, including $10,000 last month from a political action committee with ties to political organizations associated with talk show host and failed 2010 Republican governor primary candidate Dan Proft.

Ives filed an A-1 today detailing $263K in contributions. Click here. She has not yet closed down her other account, however.

* One more…

In September, fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy caused a stir when his name showed up on an exploratory committee for Chicago mayor.

The chairman of that committee, Northwest side businessman Brian McCormack, told the Sun-Times there was an effort to draft McCarthy to run against Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But first McCarthy wanted: “two things: that we have the financial wherewithal … to get his message out to the people of Chicago. And that the citizens would want him to be mayor,” McCormack told the Sun-Times.

McCormack said he expected to have an answer by late October.

Well, it’s now mid-November, but a look at that committee shows lackluster fundraising. Just eight people donated for a total of $26,000. Nearly half of that total comes from chairman Brian and Kathryn McCormack.

Another $5,000 of that came from Florida donor Harvey Freundlich who once pleaded guilty to attempted delivery of a controlled substance.

Blair Hull, who once ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate, also donated $2,500.

There’s that Hull name again.