Beginning in the 1950s, the entrepreneur and engineer Robert A. Pritzker (1926 - 2011) built the Marmon Group into a multi-billion dollar empire of manufacturing and service companies. The son of a prominent Chicago family of lawyers and entrepreneurs, Robert Pritzker was also a major figure in the family investment group that created the Hyatt Hotel Corporation. Many of his major investments and acquisitions were made in collaboration with his brother, attorney Jay Pritzker (1922 - 1999). While Jay acquired troubled companies at a discount, Robert made a specialty of restoring them...