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Pritzker family, the Glossary

The Pritzker family is an American family engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and one of the wealthiest families in the United States (staying in the top 10 of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began such listings in 1982).^[1]

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Abram Nicholas Pritzker

Abram Nicholas Pritzker (January 6, 1896 – February 8, 1986) was an American businessman and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker family and Abram Nicholas Pritzker are American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Adam Pritzker

Adam Pritzker (born July 17, 1984) is an American entrepreneur.

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Anthony Pritzker

Anthony Nicholas Pritzker (born January 7, 1961) is a member of the Pritzker family and an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune; he is managing partner of the Pritzker Group. Pritzker family and Anthony Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

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Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Braniff (1983–1990)

Braniff Inc. was a US-based airline that operated flights from 1984 until 1989 and was partially formed from the assets of the original Braniff International Airways.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Credit bureau

A credit bureau is a data collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to a consumer reporting agency in the United States, a credit reference agency in the United Kingdom, a credit reporting body in Australia, a credit information company (CIC) in India, a Special Accessing Entity in the Philippines, and also to private lenders.

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Cruise line

A cruise line is a company that operates cruise ships that operate on ocean or rivers and which markets cruises to the public.

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Daniel Pritzker

Daniel Pritzker (born 1959) is an American billionaire heir, musician, film director, and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker family and Daniel Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Donald Pritzker

Donald Nicholas Pritzker (October 31, 1932 – May 6, 1972) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. Pritzker family and Donald Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.

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Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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General Assembly (school)

General Assembly is an American-headquartered private, for-profit education organization founded by CEO Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves in early 2011 and purchased by The Adecco Group in 2018.

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Gigi Pritzker

Gigi Pritzker (born July 27, 1962) is an American billionaire and film producer. Pritzker family and Gigi Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Governor of Illinois

The governor of Illinois is the head of state and head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution.

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Harry Nicholas Pritzker

Harry Nicholas Pritzker (August 1, 1892 – August 1956) was an American businessman and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker family and Harry Nicholas Pritzker are American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign

The 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, then junior United States senator from New York, was announced on her website on January 20, 2007.

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Hyatt

Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational hospitality company headquartered in the Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels, resorts, and vacation properties.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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J. B. Pritzker

Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker (born January 19, 1965) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and attorney, serving since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois. Pritzker family and J. B. Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Jack Nicholas Pritzker

Jack Nicholas Pritzker (January 6, 1904 - October 30, 1979) was an American businessman and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker family and Jack Nicholas Pritzker are American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Jay Pritzker

Jay Arthur Pritzker (August 26, 1922 – January 23, 1999) was an American entrepreneur, conglomerate organizer, and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker family and Jay Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Jay Pritzker Pavilion, also known as Pritzker Pavilion or Pritzker Music Pavilion, is a bandshell in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Jennifer Pritzker

Jennifer Natalya Pritzker (born James Nicholas Pritzker; August 13, 1950) is an American investor, philanthropist, and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker family and Jennifer Pritzker are American billionaires.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Pritzker

John A. Pritzker (born 1953), the grandson of A.N. Pritzker and son of Jay Pritzker, is an American billionaire and investor. Pritzker family and John Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Karen Pritzker

Karen L. Pritzker (born 1958) is a documentary film producer, investor, and philanthropist. Pritzker family and Karen Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Kiev Governorate

Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Lama

Lama is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism.

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Lev Shestov

Lev Isaakovich Shestov (Лев Исаакович Шестов; 31 January Martin, Bernard, Introduction to "Athens and Jerusalem" 1866 – 19 November 1938; born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman) was a Jewish-Russian existentialist and religious philosopher.

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Liesel Pritzker Simmons

Liesel Pritzker Simmons (born Liesel Anne Pritzker), stage name Liesel Matthews, is an American heiress and former child actress. Pritzker family and Liesel Pritzker Simmons are American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo, also known as Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, is a zoo in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois.

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Linda Pritzker

Linda Pritzker (born September 1953) also known by the name Lama Tsomo is an American lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Pritzker family and Linda Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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List of largest houses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area

This List of largest houses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area includes 17 single-family residences that are known to equal or exceed of livable space within the main house.

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List of largest houses in the United States

This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house.

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List of wealthiest families

Various lists of the richest families in the world (excluding royal families or autocratic ruling dynasties) are published internationally, by Forbes as well as other business magazines.

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Lurie Children's Hospital

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, formerly Children's Memorial Hospital and commonly known as Lurie Children's, is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Marmon Group

Marmon Group is an American industrial holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois; founded by Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker in 1953 (as Colson Corporation), it has been held by the Berkshire Hathaway group since 2013.

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Matthew Pritzker

Matthew Pritzker (born May 28, 1982) is an American heir based in Chicago, Illinois. Pritzker family and Matthew Pritzker are American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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McCall's

McCall's was a monthly American women's magazine, published by the McCall Corporation, that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s.

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Millennium Park

Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

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New College of Florida

New College of Florida is a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida.

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Nicholas J. Pritzker

Nicholas J. Pritzker is an American real estate and venture entrepreneur in San Francisco, California. Pritzker family and Nicholas J. Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

The Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University, a private research university.

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Penny Pritzker

Penny Sue Pritzker (born May 2, 1959) is an American billionaire heiress, businesswoman and civic leader who served as the 38th United States secretary of commerce in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. Pritzker family and Penny Pritzker are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".

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Pogroms in the Russian Empire

Pogroms in the Russian Empire (Еврейские погромы в Российской империи) were large-scale, targeted, and repeated anti-Jewish rioting that began in the 19th century.

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Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” Founded in 1979 by Jay A.

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Pritzker Estate

The Pritzker Estate is a private residence located at 1261 Angelo Drive in the city of Los Angeles, in which the structure ranks as the second largest private residence.

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Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and a research library for the study of military history on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Pritzker School

A.N. Pritzker School is located in the Wicker Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois.

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Pritzker School of Medicine

The Pritzker School of Medicine is the M.D.-granting unit of the Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago.

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Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) is the first school of engineering at the University of Chicago. It was founded as the Institute for Molecular Engineering in 2011 by the university in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory. When the program was raised to the status of a school in 2019, it became the first school dedicated to molecular engineering in the United States.

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