Over the weekend, Ives reported raking in $2 million from Lake Forest businessman Richard Uihlein, who had already given $500,000 to her campaign. The contribution is dated before the purchase of airtime for an autobiographical ad that aired during the Super Bowl halftime break on Sunday. Uihlein's donations could make it easier for Ives to get her message out in the final weeks of the primary campaign, and media coverage of her controversial ad gets her name in the news, too.