chicago — the Rev. Jesse Jackson He has been released from a Chicago hospital where he was being treated for a rare neurological disorder, his son said Tuesday.
The 84-year-old civil rights leader was released Monday from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said Joseph Jackson, his son and family spokesman.
In 2013, Jackson, who now receives around-the-clock care at home, was diagnosed with the condition Parkinson’s disease. The diagnosis was changed last April to progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP, a neurodegenerative disorder that can have symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease.
Joseph Jackson thanked “the countless friends and supporters who reached out to our father, visited him and prayed for him,” as well as the medical and security staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
“We humbly ask for your continued prayers throughout this precious time,” Joseph Jackson said.
A disciple of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., two-time presidential candidate and internationally known founder of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, was hospitalized on November 14.
Visitors included former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, fellow civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and television arbitrator Judge Greg Mattis.
After announcing his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in 2017, Jackson continued to work and manufacture General appearancesincluding in 2024 Democratic National Convention In chicago. In 2023, he stepped down as commander of Rainbow/PUSH, which he started as Operation PUSH in 1971, but continued to report to the office regularly until a few months ago.
His family says Jackson uses a wheelchair, struggles to keep his eyes open, and is unable to speak. His relatives, including his sons, Illinois U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson and Jesse Jackson Jr., a former Illinois congressman seeking re-election, took care of him in shifts.