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Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Penny Pritzker. When charitable giving is nothing more than a scam. « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Penny Pritzker. When charitable giving is nothing more than a scam. « Fred Klonsky:

Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Penny Pritzker. When charitable giving is nothing more than a scam.

A reader of this blog wrote to me insisting that my criticism of the billion dollar Pritzker family was unfair. Investigators from Unite Here, the union that represents Hyatt Hotel employees had uncovered that the Pritzker family doesn’t pay their fair share of property taxes in Chicago. Penny and the Pritzker family own majority shares in Hyatt.

The reader chided me because the Pritzkers give money to some Chicago charities and to Millennium Park.

Penny Pritzker sits on the Chicago school board that just voted to close 17 Chicago schools. Her husband sits