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The announcement that Jesse Jackson Jr. had been transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota pinned down his whereabouts for the first time in weeks and gave clear confirmation that the Illinois congressman is suffering from depression....

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is under intensive medical treatment for a “mood disorder,” his office announced in a brief statement Wednesday, more than a month after the Chicago Democrat quietly went on medical leave of absence.

In a story that plays out like an episode of The Good Wife Chicago Alderman, Sandi Jackson says she s sticking by her husband, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., despite his recently publicized affair with a blond Washington hostess. Jackson says her husband to told her of the affair two years ago.