Hyatt Corporation

In 1957 they bought the Hyatt House hotel in Los Angeles and built this investment over the years into a chain of more than 150 Hyatt hotels in the United States and abroad. Jay and Robert specialized in buying financially troubled companies and rejuvenating them into profit-making enterprises. By the…

…and became president of the Hyatt Corporation. Sue Pritzker was a socialite, and both she and her husband served on the campaigns of various Democratic political candidates. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times in 2017, J.B. Pritzker described his parents as having been “believers in social justice.”