Marian "Cindy" Pritzker, the matriarch of one of Chicago's most powerful and generous families and the aunt of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, died this past weekend. Mrs. Pritzker died Saturday.

Cindy Pritzker, born on the South Side, “touched the lives of many, serving as a role model for resilience, determination and the power of laughter,” her family said in a statement.

Like her late husband, Jay, who built the Hyatt Hotels chain, Pritzker was an architecture aficionado who played a role in the creation of several cultural touchstones in Chicago, among them the ...

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Marian “Cindy” Friend Pritzker, the matriarch of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, has died at the age of 101. She was the wife of the man behind the Hyatt Hotel dynasty, aunt of ...

Marian “Cindy” Friend Pritzker was the matriarch of one of Chicago’s most powerful families. She was the wife of the man behind the Hyatt Hotel dynasty, aunt of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and ...

She was the wife of Hyatt Hotels founder Jay Pritzker and mother to their five children. The Kenwood native was also the aunt of Governor JB Pritzker and took him at the age of 12 after his father ...

After Jay died at 76 in 1999, family pressures rose to break up the $15 billion Pritzker empire, resulting in a lawsuit filed in 2002 by Liesel Pritzker, the youngest of Cindy's nieces and nephews.

CHICAGO, Ill. (WAND) - Cindy Pritzker, aunt of Governor JB Prizker, passed away on Saturday. On Monday, Gov. Pritzker released the following statement on his aunts passing: “My aunt Cindy ...