Pritzker family

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, and the Marmon Group, a 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 Lines.

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 (1948–72), 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 the Pritzker Military Library
        • 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 (1932–72)
      • Penny Pritzker (1959–), current (2008) national finance chair of the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
        • 2 children
      • Anthony Pritzker (1961–)
        • 6 children
      • Jay Robert Pritzker (1965–), member of New World Ventures; national chairman for Citizens for Hillary in 2008.
        • 2 children
  • Jack Pritzker (1904–79), lawyer
  • m. Rhoda Goldberg (1914–2007)
    • Nicholas J. Pritzker (1944–), Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation
      • 4 children

• • • • • Samuel Pritzker(1905-1990)

• • • Nathan Ptizker(1943-)
• Joshua Prizker(1986-)
• Michael Pritzker(1988-)

• • • Steven Pritzker
• Nicole Pritzker(1988-)

• • • Eleanor Ptitzker

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

References

• 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