Marian “Cindy” Friend Pritzker, the matriarch of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, has died at the age of 101. She was ...

Pritzker was an architecture aficionado who played a role in the creation of several cultural touchstones in Chicago.

Pritzker grew up as the daughter of a county judge in the south side of Chicago. She met Jay Pritzker as a teenager in Wisconsin and they were married until his death from a heart attack in 1999.

Pritzker, the widow of Hyatt Hotels founder ... "She could do anything," her daughter Gigi told Crain's. "I think had she been born later, she would have had an awesome career because she is ...

“Mother is the coolest thing in the world,” Pucker told the Sun-Times. In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Pritzker is survived by her sons — Tom, John, Dan — along with 14 grandchildren and ...

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 ...