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Article: Hyatt founder Jay Pritzker dies.
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- United Press International
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- January 25, 1999
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CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (UPI)
Funeral services are pending for billionaire Jay Pritzker, who helped found his family's Hyatt hotel chain.
Pritzker died Saturday of a heart attack at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was 76.
Listed as the 20th richest American by Forbes magazine last year, Pritzker had a fortune estimated at $5 billion. Pritzker and his brother, Robert, were known as Chicago's top philanthropists, donating an estimated $140 million to charities and causes over the past seven years.
Pritzker was born in 1922 in Chicago, the son of a lawyer and grandson of Russian immigrants. He served as a naval aviator in ...