Pritzker family

The Pritzker family is one of the wealthiest families in the United States, being near the top of Forbes magazine’s “America’s Richest Families” list since the magazine began it in 1982.

The family is most famous for owning the Hyatt hotel chain, and the Marmon Group, conglomerate of manufacturing and industrial service companies. Other holdings have included the Superior Bank of Chicago, the TransUnion credit bureau and the Royal Caribbean cruise line.

The Pritzker family and its members are mostly of Jewish descent.^[1]

Members

• Jacob Pritzker (1831–1896) and Sophia Schwarzman (1850–1910)
  • Nicholas Pritzker (1871–1956), Jewish immigrant from Kiev, founder of Pritzker & Pritzker law firm and a cousin of the existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov (Schwartzman).^[2]
    • Harry Nicholas Pritzker (1893–1957), lawyer, Pritzker and Pritzker law firm
      • m. Elna Stone
      • 2 children
        • Richard S. Pritzker (born 1944)
          • m. Lori Hart
        • Joanne Pritzker (1946–1955)
    • Abram Nicholas “A.N.” Pritzker (1896–1986), patriarch of family business enterprise
      • m. Fanny Doppelt
      • 3 children
        • Jay Pritzker (1922–99), co-founder of Hyatt & philanthropist
          • m. Marian “Cindy” Friend
          • 5 children
            • Nancy Pritzker (1948–72)
            • Thomas Pritzker (born 1951), chief executive of The Pritzker Organization
              • m. Margot Marshall
              • 3 children
            • John Pritzker (born 1953)
              • m. Lisa Stone
              • 3 children
            • Daniel Pritzker (born 1959), founder, guitarist and songwriter for the band Sonia Dada, and documentary filmmaker
              • m. Karen Edensworth
              • 5 children
            • Jean (Gigi) Pritzker Pucker (born 1962), filmmaker
              • m. Michael Pucker
              • 6 children
              • Abby, Conan, Maggie, Elizabeth, Aaron, and Jessy
        • Robert Pritzker (1926–2011) Founder of Marmon and Philanthropist; gave $60 million to the Illinois Institute of Technology
          • m. Audrey Gilbert
          • 3 children
            • Jennifer N. Pritzker (born James, 1950), Colonel (RET), Illinois Army National Guard, founder of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library^[3]
              • 3 children
            • Linda Pritzker (born 1953), Tibetan lama, author
              • 3 children
            • Karen Pritzker (born 1958)
              • m. Michael Vlock
              • 4 children
          • m. Irene Dryburgh
          • 2 children
            • Matthew Pritzker (born 1982)
            • Liesel Matthews (born 1984), the stage name of actress Liesel Pritzker
              • m. Ian Simmons
          • m. Mayari Sargent
          • no children
        • Donald Pritzker (1932–72), co-founder and President of Hyatt
          • m. Sue Sandel
          • 3 children
            • Penny Pritzker (born 1959), 38th United States Secretary of Commerce, chairman and CEO of PSP Capital Partners and Artemis Real Estate Partners, 2012 national co-chair of Obama for America, former Stanford University trustee.
              • m. Bryan Traubert
              • 2 children
            • Anthony Pritzker (born 1961)
              • m. Jeanne Kriser
              • 6 children
            • Jay Robert Pritzker, most commonly known as J.B. Pritzker, (born 1965), founder of Pritzker Group Venture Capital (formerly New World Ventures) and co-founder of Pritzker Group; national co-chairman of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008.
              • m. M.K. Muenster
              • 2 children
      • Jack Nicholas Pritzker (1904–79), real estate developer and lawyer
        • m. Rhoda Goldberg (1914–2007)
        • 1 child
          • Nicholas J. Pritzker (born 1944), Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation
            • 4 children

Family fortune

Members of the Pritkzer family on the Forbes 400 list of “The 400 Richest Americans 2014”:^[4]

Legacy

• Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago
• Pritzker Architecture Prize
• Pritzker Military Museum & Library
• Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern University School of Law
• Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
• Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Chicago’s Millennium Park
• A.N. Pritzker Elementary School
• Pritzker College Prep, A Campus of the Noble Network of Charter High Schools
• Pritzker Family Children’s Zoo at the Lincoln Park Zoo
• Jay Pritzker Academy, Siem Riep Cambodia
• Pritzker Marine Biological Research Center at New College of Florida
• Pritzker Galleries of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago

References

Billionaire James Pritzker opens new chapter in her life as Jennifer Pritzker. First reported by Shia Kapos, columnist for Crain's Chicago Business. ^[1]

External links

• Joseph Weber and Lorraine Woellert, The Pritzkers’ Empire Trembles, Business Week September 10, 2001
• David Barboza, Hyatt Hotel Family Will Pay $460 Million in S.& L. Case, New York Times December 11, 2001
• David Mobert, Breaking the Bank, In These Times November 8, 2002
• Shane Tritsch, Tremors in the Empire, Chicago Magazine December 2002

1. ↑ http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130823/BLOGS03/130829911/james-pritzker-opens-new-chapter-in-her-life