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Ken Griffin’s $125 Million Gift Gets His Name on Chicago Museum
Ken Griffin has buildings, wings and exhibitions named after him in Palm Beach, New York and Chicago. The billionaire hedge fund manager’s latest gift of $125 million will put his name on an entire museum. The Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago will become the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science & Industry after a board vote Thursday accepting what it calls the largest single gift in its history. The donation is the Citadel chief executive officer’s biggest ever to a museum. The gift “helps ensure that MSI remains a vital resource for science learning in the 21st century,” museum CEO David Mosena ... (full story)