News Archive

  1. TAWANI Enterprises President and CEO Col. Jennifer Pritzker Named a Crain’s 2020 Notable Veteran Executive
    Press Release
    November 10, 2020
    CHICAGO, Nov. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — TAWANI Enterprises is pleased to announce its President and CEO, Col. Jennifer Pritzker, was named a 2020 Notable Veteran Executive by Crain’s Chicago Business. The award recognizes veterans with an executive position making a mark in various industries including law, banking, real estate, investment...
  2. Program HerStory
    Operation HerStory to send women veterans on state’s first all-female Honor Flight
    Chicago Sun-Times
    February 25, 2020
    A program called Operation HerStory wants to send 100 of those women in Illinois on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., where they will tour war monuments for a day and be celebrated for their service upon their return home.
  3. Jennifer Pritzker
    Colonel Pritzker: A Chicago Billionaire Focuses on Veterans, LGBTQ Causes, and More
    Inside Philanthropy
    January 31, 2020
    While families like the Waltons and Kochs might be more well known, the Pritzker family of Chicago also holds enormous wealth.
  4. Tom Hanks joins Elizabeth Dole Foundation to honor Michelle Obama, Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Phil Roe at annual gala for veteran caregivers
    Press Release
    October 20, 2019
    Heroes and History Makers is a part of a week of events hosted by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation that will bring military caregivers from across the country to Washington, D.C.
  5. U.S. World War I Centennial Commission Announces Final Approval Of Design For New National World War I Memorial In Washington, DC
    Press Release
    September 19, 2019
    The design for the new National World War I Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC received final approval on Thursday from the United States Commission of Fine Arts (CFA).
  6. Col. Jennifer Pritzker Vanity Fair
    “One ‘Aw, Shit’ Wipes out a Thousand Attaboys”: Why Billionaire GOP Donor Jennifer Pritzker Is Abandoning Trump After Coming out as Trans
    Vanity Fair
    June 13, 2019
    For the liberal Pritzker dynasty, Jennifer’s politics were the problem, never her identity. But the former lieutenant colonel says she’s had enough of the president’s hate. “I don’t want to see my life, and the life of people like me, become a political poker chip.”...
  7. PT-305
    PT-305 USS Sudden Jerk Restoration | The National WWII Museum
    April 01, 2019
    Supporting the restoration of a historical WWII Patrol-torpedo boat.
  8. Col. (IL) Jennifer Pritzker (Retired)
    Col. (IL) Jennifer Pritzker (Retired): GOP’s Policies ‘Marginalize Me Out of Existence’
    WTTW Chicago
    January 16, 2019
    Col. (IL) Jennifer Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired) sits down with WTTW Chicago’s Carol Marin, to review her perspectives on transgender military service, the current Republican Party, and more.
  9. 2014 NGAUS Conference
    Why should I support a political party that is marginalizing me out of existence?
    Washington Post
    January 08, 2019
    An opinion piece by Jennifer Pritzker, retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, is President of TAWANI Enterprises and Chair of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
  10. Jennifer Pritzker ContributesOne Million Dollars to Army Historical Foundation
    Press Release
    May 28, 2018
    Pritzker Military Foundation has committed $1 Million to the Army Historical Foundation (AHF), a nonprofit organization who seeks to educate future Americans to fully appreciate the sacrifices that generations of Soldiers have made for the freedoms of the United States.