JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES ENDORSEMENTS  Sheila Nix, President of Tusk Philanthropies and former Chief of Staff to Dr. Jill Biden  Andrea Zopp, Former Deputy Mayor for the City of  Iris Martinez, Illinois State Senator, 20th District and Assistant Majority Leader  Emanuel "Chris" Welch, Illinois State Representative, 7th District  Christopher Dunn, Conlon & Dunn Partner and former General Counsel to Sen. Paul Simon  Vivian Robinson, Vice Chair of the Democrat Party of Illinois and State Central Committeewoman for the 15th Congressional District, Vice Chair of the Saline County Democrats, and Precinct Committeeman  Pat Quinn, Former Illinois Governor  Melissa Conyears-Ervin, Chicago City Treasurer  , Chicago Alderman and Committeeperson, 3rd Ward  Roderick T. Sawyer, Chicago Alderman, 6th Ward  Michelle A. Harris, Chicago Alderman and Democratic Committeeperson, 8th Ward  , Chicago Alderman, 11th Ward  Christopher Taliaferro, Chicago Alderman and Committeemen, 29th Ward  , Chicago Alderman and Democratic Committeeperson, 30th Ward  , Chicago Alderman and Committeeperson, 37th Ward  Brendan Reilly, Chicago Alderman, 42nd Ward and City Council President Pro Tempore  Patrick O'Connor, Former Chicago Alderman, 40th Ward  Julie Morrison, Illinois State Senator, 29th District  Steve Stadelman, Illinois State Senator, 34th District  Chris Belt, Illinois State Senator, 57th District  , Illinois State Representative 25th District  Nick Smith, Illinois State Representative, 34th District  , Illinois State Representative, 44th District, Assistant House Majority Leader  Martin Moylan, Illinois State Representative, 55th District  Jonathan Carroll, Illinois State Representative, 57th District  , Illinois State Representative, 96th District  , Illinois State Representative, 113th District  LaToya Greenwood, Illinois State Representative, 114th District  Kristopher Anderson, Democratic Activist  Tim Egan, Chicago Democratic Committeeperson, 2nd Ward  Lucy Moog, Chicago Democratic Committeeperson, 43rd Ward  Reyahd Kazmi, Entrepreneur and Youth Advocate  Deborah Lane, Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308  Timothy Wright III, Community Activist  Vernard Alsberry, Mayor of Hazel Crest  Kevin E. O'Gorman, Political Director, Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters  Mariyana Spyropoulos, Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District  Rory Hoskins, Mayor of Forest Park  Ken Harris, Will County Board Member, 4th District  John Gulley, Franklin County Board Member, 1st District  Mark Guethle, North Aurora Village Trustee  Marc Poulos, Labor Leader  Billy Halstead, Peoria County Democratic Chair  Matt Cain, Clinton County Board Member and Clinton County Democratic Chair  Kyle R. Hastings, Mayor of Orland Hills  Cynthia Santos, State Central Committeeperson, 5th District  Elizabeth Penesis, Former State Central Committeeperson  Kathleen Griffin, Educator and Union Leader  Steve Shetsky, Service Representative International Association of Fire Fighters  Amanda Howland, Trustee at College of Lake County, Attorney  Thomas Maillard, Young Democrats of Illinois, National Committeeman  Barrett Pederson, Mayor of Franklin Park  Jill Wine-Banks, MSNBC Legal Analyst and Author  Maureen Pikarski, Co-Chair of the DNC's Ethnic Coordinating Council  Michael W. Smith, President, Kankakee Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO  Victor Shi, Youth Activist  Syerra Cunningham, Youth Activist  Marcia Blumenthal Fields, Executive Committee Member, New Trier Democrats  Vincent Casillas, Former Hispanic Communications Director for Obama for America 08 and CEO Casillas Strategies  Lauren Staley Ferry, Will County Clerk  Amy Sipovic Boyles, Former LaSalle County Democratic Chair  Emmanuel Llamas, Aurora Alderman, 1st Ward  Claudia Rodriguez, Democratic Activist  Nancy Rotering, Mayor of City of Highland Park  Miriam Smith, Labor Leader  Jeff Deppe, Rock Island County Board Member, District 9  Pam Davidson, Knox County Board Member, District 3  Wendy LaFauce, Retired Educator  Aurora Austriaco, District 207 School Board Member  Sonia Desai Bhagwakar, Community Leader  Nazneen Hashmi, Deputy Committeeperson for Hanover Township, Community Organizer  Laura Hepp Kessel, Fulton County Board Member  Ashwin Puri, Youth Activist  Jimmy Chau, Firefighter  Ertharin Cousins, Former Permanent Representative to UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Former Executive Director UN World Food Program, Founder and CEO Food Systems for The Future  , Health Care Advocate, APRN, FNP-BC  Marrice Coverson, Pastor of the Church of the Spirit in Chicago  Jorge Perez, Executive Director of Hispanic American Construction Industry Association  Marcelino Garcia, Commissioner Metropolitan Water Reclamation District  Ellen Schanzle-Haskins, Sprinfield Lawyer and Labor Leader  Sherry Tite, Wood River Township Clerk  Jay Briney, Vice President, Illinois Democratic County Chairs Association, and Mason County Democratic Chair