Overview
- The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition said Wednesday that Jackson was admitted to a Chicago hospital and is being monitored for progressive supranuclear palsy.
- Jesse Jackson Jr. confirmed his father’s hospitalization in an email to the Chicago Tribune without providing additional details.
- The organization did not name the hospital or share clinical specifics and asked the public to keep the family in their prayers.
- Rainbow/PUSH said Jackson’s PSP was confirmed in April, revising an earlier Parkinson’s diagnosis first disclosed publicly in 2017.
- Recent health issues include COVID-19 hospitalizations in 2021 and a lung infection reported in October, and he stepped down as Rainbow/PUSH president in 2023.