Press & News Archive

  1. Jennifer Pritzker Opens Second Evanston Bed and Breakfast
    Curbed
    Last week owners Jennifer Pritzker, Dawn Overend, and Tom and Sue Zipprich joined Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl for a ceremonial ribbon cutting for the town’s newest bed and breakfast.
  2. Open house gives glimpse of Evanston’s second bed and breakfast
    Chicago Tribune
    The restoration is Pritzker’s second bed and breakfast, which weren’t allowed under Evanston zoning until a few years ago.
  3. Chicago Military Museum
    Chicago architect has battles ahead on World War I Memorial
    Chicago Tribune
    Founded by Jennifer Pritzker, a retired Illinois Army National Guard colonel, the museum and library has donated $5 million to the World War I Centennial Commission, mostly for operations.
  4. Local billionaire to receive recognition from state landmarks organization
    The Daily Northwestern
    Evanston billionaire Jennifer Pritzker will be recognized by Landmarks Illinois, a nonprofit that aims to protect state and cultural landmarks, for her dedication to the preservation and renovation of landmark buildings.
  5. Ribbon is cut on 2nd Pritzker B&B
    Evanston Now
    With the snip of a giant scissors and the slash of a sword, Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and billionaire philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker formally opened the second luxury bed-and-breakfast on the city’s central lakefront.
  6. Jennifer Pritzker
    Jennifer Pritzker To Be Named ‘Landmark’ By Landmarks Illinois
    Evanston Patch
    North Shore billionaire Jennifer Pritzker will be among this year’s ‘landmark’ awardees when Landmarks Illinois holds its annual Legendary Landmarks Celebration come March.
  7. Jennifer Pritzker
    Pritzker to be honored as Illinois ‘landmark’
    Evanston Now
    Evanston’s Jennifer Pritzker will be one of three honorees at the Landmarks Illinois annual Legendary Landmarks celebration.
  8. Jennifer Pritzker
    Jewish billionaire to fund transgender studies chair
    Jewish News of Northern California
    A Jewish billionaire philanthropist in Chicago has donated $2 million to establish what is believed to be the first chair of transgender studies at a university.
  9. Trans Billionaire Funds World’s First Endowed Chair in Trans Studies
    Advocate
    The 20-year-old Tawani Foundation has donated $1 million to the University of Victoria in British Columbia to create what is reportedly the world’s first endowed chair in transgender studies, according to a statement by the university.
  10. Jennifer Pritzker
    World’s Only Transgender Billionaire Gives $2M for University Chair
    Forward
    Jennifer Pritzker, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who is believed to be the only transgender billionaire in the world, made the gift through her Tawani Foundation to the University of Victoria in British Columbia, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.