Pritzker for ComSec?

President-Elect Obama's team is reportedly vetting Penny Pritzker, a well-known Chicago billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist, for Commerce Secretary. Pritzker served as the campaign's finance chair and "ran his record-breaking fundraising effort."

Beyond that, I don't really know anything about her, except that her reputation is for being smart and pretty cool.

The Pritzker family founded and owns the Hyatt hotel chain. Their name is a very familiar one in Chicago, due to various charitable donations, e.g. the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago.

[Other reports say she's taken herself out of consideration. It's actually sort of well-known where she lives in Chicago, so that may be just to deflect attention while they prepare for the increased scrutiny.]

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