Gov. J.B. Pritzker travelled to Downstate Waterloo over the weekend for the funeral of an Illinois State Trooper slain by gunfire, but the governor won’t be flying to Japan for a now canceled conference.

Pritzker is hobbling around on crutches after breaking his femur. And he’s spending a lot of time on the phone, including with Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who put a lot of political pressure on the governor in her speech about the city’s finances last week.

Of that conversation, the mayor’s office said the two shared a “productive discussion late last week about ways to work together to address the shared challenges and opportunities facing our state and Chicago’s communities,” Lightfoot spokeswoman Anel Ruiz said.

The two “have productive conversations regularly, and they spoke again late last week,” Pritzker spokeswoman Emily Bittner said. “As the Mayor works to build support for her ideas among legislative leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers, the Governor expects that they will continue to have productive conversations.”

The governor’s office did not put out a public schedule on Tuesday, but a spokeswoman confirmed that Pritzker attended the Chicago funeral of Michael Bauer, a well-respected political adviser and fundraiser who helped to create a cadre of political leaders, including Lightfoot.

Pritzker attended the funeral of Illinois State Trooper Nicholas Hopkins in Waterloo on Monday, a day usually reserved for Labor Day parades throughout the state.

Pritzker delivered a eulogy for Hopkins, who was killed Aug. 23 in East St. Louis while trying to serve a search warrant.

Pritzker’s injury comes at a time unlikely to greatly impede his official duties. After weeks of public bill signings throughout the state, all bills have been signed from the last legislative session. The injury means Pritzker will be working out of the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago and his Chicago home instead of his usual, grueling statewide travel plans.

The governor’s office said Pritzker had been attending 10 to 12 events a week, which they deemed “pretty aggressive.” The injury is, indeed, slowing down the governor a bit and the schedule in the next coming weeks will be “fairly light,” a spokeswoman said. There will be “very little out-of-state travel.”

Among the major cancellations is a trip to Tokyo, Japan for the Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference, which was scheduled for Sept. 8 -10.

Pritzker doesn’t know how the injury happened, the governor told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed last week. He just knows he attended countless public events over the last several weeks, such as the Illinois State Fair — requiring lots of standing for long periods. And while walking long distances, it flared up.

“I started to feel the pain a few weeks ago,” Pritzker told Sneed last week. “I kept doing my job anyway, but I finally had to see a doctor because the pain was getting worse.”

How bad was it?

“It had become very painful,” he said.