{"id":798486,"date":"2026-05-15T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/798486\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:43:14","slug":"pritzker-treated-at-hospital-for-complication-from-recent-procedure-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/798486\/","title":{"rendered":"Pritzker treated at hospital for \u2018complication\u2019 from recent procedure \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker had a &#8220;minor complication&#8221; from a recent procedure and was taken to a Springfield hospital earlier this week, a spokesperson for the governor confirmed to NBC Chicago Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The complication stemmed from an earlier urology procedure, with Pritzker going to a Springfield hospital overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Matt Hill said no ambulance was needed and Pritzker was treated and sent home.<\/p>\n<p>The governor completed his full schedule Thursday, including meetings with lawmakers, staff, political calls and a budget meeting, Hill said. He&#8217;s expected to do his full schedule Friday as well before returning to Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>Details on the complication weren&#8217;t immediately released. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s nothing to be concerned about,&#8221; Hill said. <\/p>\n<p>The news comes just two weeks after the governor&#8217;s office revealed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/gov-pritzker-to-temporarily-pause-public-events-following-medical-procedure\/3930879\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> he underwent a routine outpatient urology procedure.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker had a &#8220;minor complication&#8221; from a recent procedure and was taken to a Springfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":798487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,12084],"class_list":{"0":"post-798486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-jb-pritzker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116579362891304230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}