Article: Hyatt founder Jay Pritzker dies.

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 ...

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