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Ann and Robert H. Lurie Family Foundation was incorporated in 1986 (38 years ago) () and, in 2000, the name was changed to Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation.The Foundation was established by Chicagoans Robert H. Lurie, a real estate and investment magnate who died from colon cancer in 1990, at age 48, [1] and his wife, Ann, who died from brain cancer in 2024, aged 79.
Robert H. Lurie was an American philanthropist and businessman who was a founder of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation, which contributed to the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Lurie Children's Hospital. With his business partner Sam Zell, he was a part-owner of the White Sox and the Bulls.
Ann Lurie (1944/1945 – June 24, 2024) was an American philanthropist and nurse who founded the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation with her husband Robert H. Lurie in 1986. [1] She died on June 24, 2024, at the age of 79.
In the 1970s, Zell and Lurie began to diversify into office buildings such as Chicago’s landmark Field building, which they bought for $52 million in 1978 and sold for $94 million in 1981.
Joined by his fraternity brother Robert H. Lurie, he won a contract with a large apartment development owner in Ann Arbor. In 1966, he graduated with a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. [9] By that time, he and Lurie were managing over 4,000 apartments and owned 100–200 units outright.
Lurie was born to a Jewish family [1] in San Francisco, the son of Babette (née Greenbaum) and Louis Lurie. [2] In 1972, he took over the real estate company founded in 1922 by his father. The company built a number of properties along Montgomery Street over the years, including a building Bank of America bought and tore down for its world ...
Additionally, Lurie Cancer Center is a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and a member of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium. [3] Founded in 1974, [4] the center was dedicated through a gift of endowment from the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation in 1991. [5] Lurie Cancer Center treats nearly 17,000 new patients ...
Daniel Lurie, who is one of the heirs to the Levi Strauss jeans company fortune, is now the San Francisco mayor-elect. The Democrat, 47, was elected after defeating incumbent mayor London Breed ...