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By NBC Chicago News
June 26, 2023 – 2:30PM
CHICAGO (CBS) — Billionaire James Crown, a leader of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, died Sunday in a car crash at a Colorado race track.
Crown, 70, a businessman and socialite who was part of Chicago’s wealthy Crown family, was killed in a single-vehicle crash at Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, Colorado, according to the Pitkin County Coroner’s Office.
The coroner said James Crown suffered multiple blunt force trauma in the crash, but an official cause of death has not yet been determined, pending an autopsy. The manner of death has been ruled an accident.