Pritzker family

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The Pritzker family is one of America's wealthiest, and has been near the top of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began in 1982.

The family is most famous for owning the Hyatt hotel chain, but also controls the TransUnion Credit Bureau and the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

[edit] Members of the Pritzker Family

• Nicholas Pritzker (1871–1957), Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, father of the family of Pritzker
  • Harry Pritzker (1893–1957), lawyer
  • Abram Nicholas Pritzker (1896–1986)
    • Jay Pritzker (1922–99), founder of Hyatt & philanthropist
      • Nancy Pritzker (1948–1972), suicide
      • Thomas Pritzker (1950-), chief executive of Pritzker Organization holding company
      • m. Margot Marshall
        • 3 children
      • John A. Pritzker (1953-)
        • 3 children
      • Daniel Pritzker (1959-), founder, guitarist and songwriter for the Chicago band Sonia Dada
        • 5 children
      • Jean (Gigi) Pritzker (1962-), filmmaker
        • 3 children
    • Robert Pritzker (1926-)
      • James N. Pritzker (1950-), retired U.S. Army colonel, founder of Pritzker Military Museum
        • 3 children
      • Linda Pritzker (1953-), psychoanalyst, political activist
        • 3 children
      • Karen Pritzker (1958-)
        • 4 children
      • Matthew (1982-)
      • Liesel Matthews (1984-), the stage name of actress Liesel Pritzker
    • Donald Pritzker (1932–1972)
      • Penny Pritzker (1959-), member of The Real Estate Roundtable
        • 2 children
      • Anthony Pritzker (1961-)
        • 6 children
      • J.B. Pritzker (1965-), member of New World Ventures
        • 2 children
  • Jack Pritzker (1904–1979), lawyer
  • m. Rhoda Goldberg (1914–2007)
    • Nicholas J. Pritzker (1944-), Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation
      • 4 children

[edit] Legacy

• Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago
• Pritzker Architecture Prize
• Pritzker Military Library
• Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern University School of Law
• Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology