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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