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Jay Arthur Pritzker (August 26, 1922 – January 23, 1999) was an American entrepreneur, conglomerate organizer, and member of the Pritzker family. He was a founder of the Hyatt Corporation, having purchased the first Hyatt Hotel in 1957, and was responsible for the corporation's evolution into a multinational hospitality conglomerate.
Jay Robert Pritzker (born January 19, 1965) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and attorney serving since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois. He is from Chicago and is a member of the wealthy Pritzker family, which owns the hotel chain Hyatt.
Jan 26, 2022 · Born on August 26, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, Jay Pritzker was an entrepreneur, co-founder of the Marmon Group, and co-founder of Hyatt Hotels. He is one of three sons of Abram Nicholas Pritzker, the patriarch of the Pritzker family, one of the wealthiest families in the United States.
In 1995, Jay Pritzker, the cofounder of Hyatt, stepped down and Thomas Pritzker took control of The Pritzker Organization. When the former died in 1999, the family split the business into 11 pieces worth $1.4 billion each (and chose to settle a lawsuit from two family members, who apparently received $500 million each, in 2005).
Jan 24, 1999 · Jay Pritzker, whose hunch in the 1950's that America's restless business executives would flock to hotels near airports prompted him to build the Hyatt hotel chain, died yesterday of cardiac...
Hyatt was founded by Jay Pritzker in 1957 when he purchased the Hyatt House motel adjacent to the Los Angeles International Airport.
Jan 25, 1999 · Jay Pritzker, whose hunch in the 1950's that America's restless business executives would flock to hotels near airports prompted him to build the Hyatt hotel chain, died on Saturday of cardiac...
Jan 28, 1999 · Jay Pritzker, pioneer of the modern hotel chain, died on January 23rd, aged 76. Jan 28th 1999 |. AP. THE story goes that in 1957 Jay Pritzker was in a hotel coffee-shop called...
Mar 8, 2024 · Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was this week declared winner of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest international award in the field, which is sometimes referred to as the “Architecture Nobel”.
Hyatt founder Jay Pritzker was working as a lawyer when he took a business trip to LA in 1957. Today, 11 members of his family are billionaires.
