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Chicago Symphony nets $10m gift

Chicago Symphony nets m gift

Investor Jennifer Pritzker’s Tawani Foundation has just given ten mill to her local band.

Half of it goes into a chellenge fund to secure matching grants.

Ms Pritzker retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Illinois Army National Guard in 2001. Ms Pritzker is a cousin of Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker and former US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.

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