WOODY CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Jim Crown, an executive and philanthropist who recently announced an effort to rally other Chicago business leaders to help fight violent crime, has died in a car crash on a racing track in Colorado. He was 70.
The Pitkin County coroner's office says Crown, a grandson of industrialist Henry Crown and the CEO of Henry Crown & Co., was involved in a single-vehicle accident Sunday at the Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that financier Lester Crown said his son's race car hit a wall while going around a curve.
Earlier this month, Jim Crown said he and other Chicago corporate leaders were committed to finding jobs for as many as 10,000 young men.
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