Pritzker family Biography

Members

• Jacob Pritzker (1831"1896)
  • Nicholas Pritzker (1871"1956), Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, founder of Pritzker & Pritzker law firm
    • 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
              • 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 Library
              • 3 children
            • Linda Pritzker (born 1953), psychoanalyst, political activist
              • 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, Stanford University trustee and member of Chicago Board of Education
              • 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 New World Ventures and The 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

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
• 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