Crown died on Sunday, on his birthday, when he crashed into a barrꦓier at the Aspen Moꦡtorsports Park.

“The official cause of death is pending autopsy although multiple blunt force trauma is evident,” the coroner’🌠s office said in a news release. “The manner is accident.”

James Crown, Chicago billionaire🐷, dead in Colorado race track accident, had announced plans to enlist CEOs to fight violent crime in Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times

— Lara Logan (@laralogan)

He was a board member at JPMorgan Chase, chairman and CEO of his family business, and mꦬanaging partner of Aspen Skiing Co.

Forbes 𒊎estimated the Crown family’s wealth at $10.2 billion in 2020.

President Obama appointed Crown to the Pre𝕴sident’s Intelligence Advisory Board in 2014.

President Biden 💞called Crown “a good man, a dear friend, and a great American.”

Biden add🐽ed: “Jim lived a great Chicago story – one that tied our nation’s industrious past to an ever-hopeful future. He grew up the great-grandson of a sweatshop worker whose son turned a construction-supply company into an empire. 

“Throughout his own career as a business and civic leader, Jim continued to drive that legacy forward, bring out the best in his peers, and 🙈help shape the city he loved.”