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...did not penny-pinch on the sets, the costumes or anything else that it took to make things look as good as they possibly could. Pritzker made a film about a man he knows was as great as an American musician ever could be, a man about whom few now know the...
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On 9/2/2010 at Hyatt Burlingame at SFO, Unite Here Local 2 workers and their supporters picketed the hotel on the 2010 Labor Day weekend to protest the continuing attack by Hyatt management and owners on their healthcare benefits and working conditions. In San Francisco, the Hyatt hotel bosses with the "Refresh Program" plan want to increase the housekeepers rooms to more than 25. They also discussed the role of Penny Pritzker, who is one of the owners and also a supporter and economic advisor to President Obama. For more information about this dispute go to www.unitehere2.org For more information on Penny Pritzker blogs.suntimes.com Production of Labor Video Project, laborvideo.blip.tv www.laborvideo.org
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...communities against one another.” The film, which can viewed online at www.showusthetaxbreaks.org, combines news footage of Penny Pritzker with worker interviews to argue that Pritzker’s role on the president’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board is misplaced....
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In downtown Chicago, Millennium Park has become a popular destination for tourists and Chicagoans alike. This is my first web video for my travel blog. Thanks to Karen Vaughan for the interview and Penny for use of her condo for the fabulous aerial shots. And to Rafie Fields for his stellar editing. Take a look at the video to see the Crown Fountain, Pritzker Pavilion for free concerts and the iconic bean. And check out my blog at www.terricolby.com.
President Obama hosts a public meeting of the Presidents Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
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The inauguration, with it came hope; now the goal of all of us should be to make that hope a reality. The president and congress cannot salvage the nation from the bush "legacy", (incredible disaster), by themselves, we all have to pitch in to
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky and husband Robert Creamer at the Obama state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Chicago business executive John Rogers at the Obama state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker at the Obama state dinner
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Chicago Sun-Times
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/11/chicagoans_at_the_obama_state.html
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Penny Pritzker and Sam Zell are two of the most prominent figures in Chicago real estate. Both are billionaires and both recently gave speeches on the industry at university events. The similarities ended there. They looked different, talked different
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...voting power. The board will include two family members, too: Executive Chairman Thomas J. Pritzker and his cousin Penny Pritzker. “That basically makes the people that buy into it a junior, silent partner,” Fitzgibbon said. Hyatt won’t receive any proceeds...
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Recently I was asked to moderate a panel for the Alternative Investment Management LLC annual partners meeting with some of the great legal, political and business minds in the country. There was Bill Daley, the head of J.P. Morgan Chase's Office of
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Chairman Thomas Pritzker and Director Penny Pritzker have chosen to protect their long-term interests in Hyatt at the price of accountability to public shareholders. Among Hyatt’s corporate control mechanisms are
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Hyatt Hotels Corp. announced Monday that the shares it expects to sell to the general public will be priced at $23 to $26. The announcement comes just days after the Pritzker family, which controls the chain, aired its infighting in documents filed
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Hyatt Hotels Corp. announced Monday that the shares it expects to sell to the general public will be priced at $23 to $26. The announcement comes just days after the Pritzker family, which controls the chain, aired its infighting in documents filed
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A month-old labor dispute in Boston has taken a curious twist. It began when on August 31, a hundred housekeepers at three Hyatt hotels in Boston were fired and replaced by workers from a Georgia company, Hospitality Staffing Solutions. The
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The New Republic
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Execution is becoming an increasingly important aspect of running a successful senior living business, according to Penny Pritzker, chairwoman and founder of Classic Residence by Hyatt.
Speaking in Chicago Thursday at the 19th annual National
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Women business owners shared their tips for beating the recession at the 23rd Annual Entrepreneurial Women's Conference at Navy Pier on Wednesday. More than 500 jammed the ballroom for a breakfast forum hosted by the Women's Business Development Center
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Billionaire businesswoman Penny Pritzker is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the 23rd Annual Enterpreneurial Woman's Conference Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009.
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The Pritzkers, one of the US’s wealthiest clans, who count President Obama’s
campaign finance chief Penny Pritzker among their fold, own 71pc of the
company’s shares.
The IPO, which is being run by Goldman, Deutsche and JP Morgan Stanley, will
raise $1.
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President Obama lands in Lincoln Park to attend a fundraiser dinner at the home of Penny Pritzker
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A little after 2 p.m. on Thursday, before the police cars and the sniffing dogs and the blue barricades arrived, Mrs. Kwon, who is from Korea, and her assistant, Evelyn, who is from Mexico, made a pilgrimage up North Orchard Street.
They were going
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...Well, at the North Side home of Penny Pritzker, a close Obama chum and
super fundraiser, there was a large, if culinarily unimaginative,
early-evening buffet dinner, according to resourceful Mike Flannery, a
reporter for Chicago's WBBM-TV and the
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www.politico.com President Obama left the Cleveland area and an afternoon of health care reform events for two Democratic National Committee fundraisers in Chicago, where he struck a defensive and at times defiant tone about his top priority. After touching down in his home city for the first time in more than five months, Obama first attended a $15200-a-person dinner at the Lincoln Park home his campaign fundraiser Penny Pritzker, where he took a shot at the media for what he deemed its "lack of sustained focus on the facts" concerning health care reform, which he said "makes it very difficult" for him. Then he moved on to an event at the Hyatt Regency, where he defiantly told a crowd of about 750 donors, "We are going to pass health care reform in 2009." And he used the backdrop of the street-fighter politics that define his home city to fire back at his Republican critics one of whom, Sen. Jim DeMint, he said has told the GOP that defeating health care reform would break Obama. Let me tell you something," Obama said. "I'm from Chicago. I don't break." Obama tried to put the best face on the setback to his reform plans he was dealt Thursday, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's announcement Thursday "So even though we still have a few issues to work out, what's remarkable about this point is not how far we have left to go, it's how far we've already come." "I understand how easy it is for folks in Washington to become consumed by the game of politics." He did his ...
Don't read this. The National Welfare Rights Organization was a communist front. The NWRO morphed into the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now! Robin: Arkansas? Batman: Yep. Arkansas. Robin: Maybe this is why Bill Clinton is WELL AWARE of the "Cloward Piven Strategy" of ORCHESTRATED (CREATED) CRISIS? Batman: Yeah. I'd say that is a pretty good guess. Rahm: Well, um, how come MoveOn.Org was first created to help Bill get past the Monica Lewinsky scandal... and, and, and why is it so heavily financed by George Soros? Are George and Bill pals or something? Podesta: Yeah. I'd say that's a pretty good guess tags bill Clinton VENONA Podesta Ron Paul Paulie Paultard Ronbots race racism Black Panther Party Holy Cow Bat Man a fifth column using plain old subversion has committed economic sabotage against the United States! Wait til Hillary finds out about this! This is straight out of Rules for Radicals! (Ya know, Saul Alinsky, the guy no one has ever heard of.) Let's see what Penny Pritzker knows about this! Bernadine Dohrn: Robin, are you drunk again or are you simply having too much fun? Robin: Um, you better call me a cab.
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Obama to make pitches for healthcare, Dems
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, fresh from his prime-time argument for reforming the U.S. healthcare system, travels to Ohio Thursday for a healthcare town hall.
Before the town hall
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Also on Thursday, Obama will visit Chicago for a party fundraiser at the residence of Penny Pritzker, a businesswoman and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune. She was Obama's national finance chairwoman during his presidential campaign and was considered
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President Barack Obama raised millions of dollars Thursday for Democratic candidates in next year's elections, making a side trip to his hometown of Chicago after pushing for health care changes in Cleveland.
The president made two fundraising stops to
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Bears coach Lovie Smith and the team's new Pro Bowl quarterback, Jay Cutler, are among the invited guests for a private fund-raising dinner Thursday for President Barack Obama.
The dinner, at the Chicago home of Obama's long-time friend Penny Pritzker
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release June 30, 2009
AT NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE FUNDRAISER
Mandarin Hotel
Washington, D.C.
7:08 P.M. EDT
THE
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President Obama; tell us about your involvement in the sub-prime mortgages and how ACORN, Bill Clinton & Penny Pritzker (your campaign finance chairperson) are not targets of your explanation of the mortgage crisis?
One thing I notice about Obama’s
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Anderson Cooper 360 Blog
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President Obama Announces Appointments to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships
Washington, DC - Today, President Obama appointed 28 members to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. This accomplished group of
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Chicago Sun-Times
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/06/obamas_half-sister_big_fund-ra.html
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She is joining together with other billionaires to fight bill, which would "make it easier for unions to organize hotels they own." She has "told the president she is opposed to the measure, known as card check, said a person familiar with the
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Nov. 4, 2008. Election day at Hyatt Hotel on East Wacker Drive in Chicago. Obama Finance Chair Penny Pritzker and David Jacobson, deputy finance chair were making sure their top donors were taken care of during the election day festivities.
(photo by
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President Obama Appoints Cindy S. Moelis as the Director for the Presidential Commission on White House Fellows
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Barack Obama appointed Cindy S. Moelis as the Director for the Presidential Commission on White House
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*Michelle Obama brought along some famous women to various Washington-area high schools on Thursday to discuss the importance of setting career goals.
      Among the participating celebs were pop singer Alicia Keys, opera star Denyce Graves, actress
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EURweb
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to "sell" President Obama's Senate seat, among other charges. The documents include federal subpoenas issued to Governor Blagojevich's office related to a number of individuals connected to President Obama and the
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...businesses and create jobs and she is an experienced executive who understands many industries. As for the Trib's statement that Pritzker was "intimately involved in the failure of Superior Bank of Chicago," which The Wall Street Journal said " 'engaged in...
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
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Obama's selection of her is an excellent choice. Pritzker knows how to build businesses and create jobs and she is an experienced executive who understands many industries.
As for the Trib's statement that Pritzker was "intimately involved in the
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
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With the search back on for a Commerce secretary, software industry executive John W. Thompson has again emerged as a leading contender.
Thompson had been mentioned as a possible choice before Sen. Judd Gregg ’s nomination earlier this month, and he
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CQ Politics
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You are judged by the company you keep. Or in the case of the president of the United States, those you appoint to Cabinet and advisory positions. Barack Obama isn't doing very well.
The troubles of Bill Richardson, Eric Holder, Timothy Geithner, Tom
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
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The Obama campaign's finance chair, Penny Pritzker, emailed out news of the Democratic National Committee's new top fundraising officials Monday, putting a major supporter and key campaign aides in place as to keep up the traditional, prolific
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THE ART OF JUNK performing live some raw video by zone3 the night after obama's inauguration in washington dc. check them out at : www.myspace.com/artofjunk WASHINGTON Unemployment is up. The stock market is down. Let's party. The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration gala is expected to break records, with some estimates reaching as high as $150 million. Despite the bleak economy, however, Democrats who called on President George W. Bush to be frugal four years ago are issuing no such demands now that an inaugural weekend of rock concerts and star-studded parties has begun. Obama's inaugural committee has raised more than $41 million to cover events ranging from a Philadelphia-to-Washington train ride to a megastar concert with Beyonce, U2 and Bruce Springsteen to 10 official inaugural balls. Add to that the massive costs of security and transportation — costs absorbed by US taxpayers — and the historic inauguration will produce an equally historic bill. In 2005, Reps. Anthony Weiner, DN.Y., and Jim McDermott, D-Wash., asked Bush to show a little less pomp and be a little more circumspect at his party. "President Roosevelt held his 1945 inaugural at the White House, making a short speech and serving guests cold chicken salad and plain pound cake," the two lawmakers wrote in a letter. "During World War I, President Wilson did not have any parties at his 1917 inaugural, saying that such festivities would be undignified." The thinking was that, with the ...
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Lynn Sweet is a columnist and the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times.
This page contains a single entry by Lynn Sweet published on January 17, 2009 7:00 PM.
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But this time around, it's not entirely clear who the well-connected bundlers need to be lobbying for jobs.
Whereas Terry McAuliffe famously served that role for the Clintons, some New York donors say there is not one gatekeeper they can readily
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/new-york-bundlers-seek-sub-cabinet-posts-obama-rabbi
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(Crain's) — The Presidential Inauguration Committee, headed by Chicago business execs Penny Pritzker and John Rogers, has published a couple of lists of major donors to the January festivities.
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...accommodate more Americans than ever before. The Committee is headed by a bipartisan group of co-chairs: William Daley, Penny Pritzker, John Rogers, Patrick Ryan and Julianna Smoot, who said today they intend to deliver on President-elect Obama's commitment...
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Chicago Sun-Times
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/11/obama_presidential_inauguratio.html
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WASHINGTON--Chicagoans Penny Pritzker, John Rogers and William Daley will be among the Obama inauguration co-chairs, with the Presidential Inauguration Committee headquarters up and running in southwest Washington. Fund-raising calls have already
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Chicago Sun-Times
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/11/pritzker_rogers_and_daley_to_b.html
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The incoming First Couple spends a couple hours dining at national finance chair Penny Pritzker's home in Lincoln Park Saturday night. Later, they head over to the home of friend Marty Nesbitt, a couple blocks from their house. Arrived home by 12:30 am
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Time Magazine
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...more than 7 hours at home, Obama's SUV pulled out at 5:48. He and his wife arrived at his friend and national finance chair Penny Pritzker's home for dinner at 6:26.

There was a slight delay as the motorcade made a wrong turn and stopped at a fire house a...
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Chicago Sun-Times
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/11/obama_parties_saturday_night_f.html
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...go, this one was leaden. There was an immediate and visceral reaction when the Obama transition folks floated the name of Penny Pritzker as the top choice for Commerce secretary. Ms. Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel chain, was Mr. Obama's national campaign...
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