Our Endorsements

Endorsements of Bill Foster

Elected Officials 2024

  • U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)
  • U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
  • U.S. Representative Jonathan Jackson (IL-01)
  • U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (IL-02)
  • U.S. Representative Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (IL-04)
  • U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05)
  • U.S. Representative Sean Casten (IL-06)
  • U.S. Representative Danny Davis (IL-07)
  • U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08)
  • U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
  • U.S. Representative Brad Schneider (IL-10)
  • U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski (IL-13)
  • U.S. Representative Eric Sorensen (IL-17)
  • Illinois Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton
  • Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul
  • Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias
  • Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza
  • Governor J.B. Pritzker
  • Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs
  • State Senator Laura Ellman (IL-21)
  • State Senator Cristina Castro (IL-25)
  • State Senator Steve Stadelman (IL-34)
  • State Senator Linda Holmes (IL-42) 
  • State Senator Meg Loughran Cappel (IL-49)
  • State Representative Janet Yang-Rohr (IL-41)
  • State Representative Terra Costa Howard (IL-42)
  • State Representative Maura Hirschauer (IL-49)
  • State Representative Barbara Hernandez (IL-50)
  • State Representative Suzanne Ness (IL-66)
  • State Representative Dave Vella (IL-68)
  • State Representative Anne Stava-Murray (IL-81)
  • State Representative Stephanie Kifowit (IL-84)

LABOR UNIONS 2024

  • United Auto Workers(UAW)
  • Mid America Carpenters Regional Council
  • International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150
  • IAMAW Machinists Local 701
  • Chicago Fire Fighters Union
  • United Auto Workers Local 1268
  • Illinois AFL-CIO
  • Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT)
  • Illinois Education Association(IEA)
  • Illinois Nurses Association
  • Associated Firefighters of Illinois
  • American Federation of Government Employees Local 704

STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 2024

  • Planned Parenthood Action Fund
  • National Organization of Women(NOW) PAC
  • National Resource Defense Council Action Fund
  • Sierra Club
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • Citizen Action Illinois
  • Council for a Liveable World

Local Elected Officials 2024

  • DuPage County Board Chair Deb Conroy
  • Kane County Board Chair Corinne Pierog
  • DuPage County Forest Preserve President Daniel Hebreard
  • DuPage County Board Member Paula Deacon Garica(District 2)
  • DuPage County Board Member Lucy Chang Evans(District 3)
  • DuPage County Board Member Dawn Desart(District 5)
  • DuPage County Board Member Greg Schwarze(District 6)
  • DuPage County Forest Preserve Commissioner Tina Tyson-Dunne(District 2)
  • DuPage County Forest Preserve Commissioner Jeff Gahris(District 4)
  • DuPage County Forest Preserve Commissioner Barb O’Meara(District 5)
  • Kane County Board Member Dale Berman(District 2)
  • Kane County Board Member Anita Lewis(District 3)

 

  • Kane County Board Member Mavis Bates(District 4)
  • Kane County Board Member Monica Silva(District 7)
  • Kane County Board Member Michelle Gumz(District 8)
  • Kane County Board Member Bill Tarver(District 10)
  • Kane County Board Member Leslie Juby(District 11)
  • Kane County Board Member Mike Linder(District 13)
  • McHenry County Board Member Gloria Van Hof(District 2)
  • McHenry County Board Member Carolyn Campbell(District 3)
  • McHenry County Board Member Kelli Wegener(District 5)
  • McHenry County Board Member Lou Ness(District 7)
  • Will County Democratic Leader Jacqueline Traynere(District 11)
  • Will County Board Member Meta Muller(District 10)

Newspapers and Publications 2024

  • Chicago Tribune
  • Daily Herald

Elected Officials 2022

  • U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)
  • U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
  • State Senator Karina Villa
  • State Senator Laura Ellman
  • State Senator Linda Holmes
  • State Senator Meg Loughran Cappel
  • State Representative Anne Stava-Murray
  • State Representative Barbara Hernandez
  • State Representative Janet Yang-Rohr
  • State Representative Larry Walsh Jr
  • State Representative Maura Hirschauer
  • State Representative Natalie Manley
  • State Representative Stephanie Kifowit
  • State Representative Suzanne Ness
  • Mayor of Naperville Steve Chirico
  • Mayor of Batavia Jeff Schielke
  • Mayor of Crystal Lake Haig Haleblian
  • Mayor of Warrenville Dave Brummel
  • Mayor of Woodridge Gina Cunningham
  • Mayor of Romeoville John Noak
  • President of North Aurora Village Mark Gaffino

LABOR UNIONS 2022

  • AFL-CIO
  • International Union of Operating Engineers (Local 150)
  • Chicago Fire Fighters Union
  • Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT)
  • Associated Firefighters of Illinois

COMMUNITY LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS 2022

  • Former Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman

STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 2022

  • 20/20 Vision DNC
  • Human Rights Campaign
  • Planned Parenthood Action Fund
  • NARAL Pro Choice America
  • National Organization for Women Political Action Committee
  • National Organization for Women (NOW) PAC
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • NARAL
  • NRDC Action Fund
  • Progressive Turnout Project
  • Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA)
  • Sierra Club
  • Illinois Farm Bureau ACTIVATOR

Newspapers and Publications 2022

  • Chicago Tribune
  • Daily Herald

 


 

Elected Officials 2020

  • U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)
  • U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
  • U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush (D, IL-01)
  • U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D, IL-02)
  • U.S. Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García (D, IL-04)
  • U.S. Congressman Danny Davis (D, IL-07)
  • U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D, IL-09)
  • Laura Ellman, State Senator (IL-21)
  • Linda Holmes, State Senator (IL-21)
  • Janet Yang-Rohr, State Representative (IL-41)
  • Meg Loughran Cappel, State Senator (IL-49)
  • Maura Hirschauer, State Representative (IL-49)
  • Anne Stava-Murray, State Representative (IL-81)
  • Barbara Hernandez, State Representative (IL-83)
  • Stephanie Kifowit, State Representative (IL-84)
  • Larry Walsh Jr., State Representative (IL-86)
  • Natalie Manley, State Representative (IL-98)
  • Lora Vitek, Mayor City of St. Charles, Illinois
  • Julia Beckman, IL 11th District Democratic State Central Committeewoman
  • Duffy Blackburn, IL 11th District Democratic State Central Committeeman
  • Kristina Zahorik, IL 11th District Democratic State Central Committeewoman
  • Denise Winfrey, Speaker of the Will County Board, District 8
  • Mark Ferry, Will County Board Majority Leader, District 13
  • Tyler Marcum, Will County Board Majority Whip, District 10
  • Laurie Summers, Will County Board District 1
  • Margaret Tyson, Will County Board District 3
  • Ken Harris, Will County Board District 4
  • Jacqueline Traynere, Will County Board District 4
  • Meta Mueller, Will County Board District 5
  • Joe Van Duyne, Will County Board District 6
  • Reverend Herb Brooks, Will County Board District 8
  • Mimi Cowan, Will County Board District 11
  • Bob Jaskiewicz, Bolingbrook Village Trustee
  • Mavis Bates, Fox Valley Park District Commissioner

LOCAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS 2020

  • Citizen Action Illinois
  • The Democratic Women of Will County
  • Jeff Boetto, Chairman, Troy Township Democrats
  • Kevin Clancy, Chairman, Plainfield Township Democratic Organization
  • Greg Elsbree, Chairman, Aurora Township Democrats
  • Mark Guethle, Chairman, Kane County Democratic Party
  • Julie Gondar, Chairwoman, Kendall County Democrats
  • Ken Griffin, Chairman, Lockport Township Democrats
  • Nora Gruenberg, Chairwoman, New Lenox Township Democrats
  • Ken Meija-Beal, Chairman, DuPage County Democratic Party
  • Nick Palmer, Chairman, Wheatland Township Democrats
  • Kim Savage, Chairwoman, Downers Grove Township Democrats
  • Burke Shuster, Chairman, Will County Democratic Central Committee
  • Bill Thoman, Chairman, Will County Democratic Central Committee

LABOR UNIONS 2020

  • Illinois AFL-CIO
  • Illinois Federation of Teachers
  • Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois
  • DuPage County Building and Construction Trades Council
  • Fox Valley Building and Construction Trades Council
  • Will-Grundy Counties Central Trades & Labor Council
  • Chicago Fire Fighters Union, Local No. 2
  • Ironworkers Local 393 (Aurora, IL)
  • International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 124 (Joliet, IL)
  • International Association Of Heat & Frost Insulators Local 17
  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 701 (Naperville/Warrenville, IL)
  • International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150
  • National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 219 (Aurora, IL)
  • National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 305 (Joliet, IL)
  • Painters District Council No. 14 (Joliet, IL)
  • Painters District Council No. 30 (Aurora, IL)
  • Progressive Turnout Project
  • United Food and Commercial Workers Local 881
  • More Coming Soon!

State and National Organizations 2020

  • 20/20 Vision DNC
  • Associated Firefighters of Illinois
  • Human Rights Campaign
  • Illinois Federation of Teachers
  • Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA)
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • Sierra Club
  • Planned Parenthood Action Fund
  • National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW PAC)
  • NRDC Action Fund
  • J-Street PAC
  • The Chicago Sun Times
  • The Daily Herald
  • The Chicago Tribune

Nobel Prize Winners

When Bill Foster first ran for office, his campaign was endorsed by 31 Nobel Prize winners.   It is believed that this is a record for a campaign for the U.S. House.

This number went to 32 when President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2017, three more of Bill’s supporters (Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish) won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the observation of gravitational waves from the collision of a pair of massive black holes a billion light years from Earth.

 

  • Alexei Abrikosov
  • Peter Agre
  • Paul Berg
  • James W Cronin
  • Johann Deisenhofer
  • Jerome Friedman
  • Sheldon Glashow
  • Roy Glauber
  • David Gross
  • Roger Guillemin
  • John Hall
  • Herbert Hauptman
  • Alan Heeger
  • Dudley Herschbach
  • Ronald Hoffmann
  • Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Walter Kohn
  • Herbert Kroemer
  • Harold Kroto
  • Leon Lederman
  • T.D. Lee
  • Anthony Leggett
  • John Mather
  • President Barack Obama
  • Douglas Osheroff
  • Martin Perl
  • David Politzer
  • Norman F. Ramsey
  • Sherwood Rowland
  • George Smoot
  • Joseph Taylor
  • Frank Wilczek

Endorsements from Previous Elections

NEWSPAPERS

  • Chicago Tribune
  • Daily Herald
  • Kane County Chronicle

 

ELECTED OFFICIALS

  • Tim Baldermann, Mayor, New Lenox
  • Dale Berman, President, North Aurora Village
  • Matt Brolley, President, Montgomery Village
  • Tom Giarrante, Former Mayor, Joliet
  • Marilyn Michelini, Former President, Montgomery Village

ORGANIZATIONS

  • Illinois AFL-CIO
  • Illinois International Union of Operating Engineers
  • Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois
  • NARAL Pro-Choice America
  • Planned Parenthood of Illinois Action
  • National Education Association
  • Illinois Federation of Teachers
  • Sierra Club
  • Council for a Livable World
  • Alliance for Retired Americans

Paid for by Bill Foster for Congress