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Theurer-Wrigley mansion in Lincoln Park for sale for $8.7 million

The nine-bedroom, 15,000-square-foot Theurer-Wrigley mansion in Lincoln Park came back on the market Monday for $8.695 million.

Designed by architect Richard Schmidt and built in 1896 for brewer Joseph Theurer, the approximately 16-room, 15,000-square-foot mansion has several claims to fame, including its onetime ownership by the Wrigley family. City officials also considered buying the mansion in the late 1970s for use as the official mayor's residence.

The mansion has six full baths, three half-baths, park and lagoon views, and a separate coach house with two apartments.

Noted attorney Ted Tetzlaff paid $9 million for the mansion in 2004. He listed it in 2011 for $9.5 million and pulled it off the market about a year later.

The mansion was the subject of a foreclosure from 2011 to 2013.

Listing agent Mary Bennett, of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff, confirmed that Tetzlaff owns the property and lives there with his son.

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Former Blackhawk Brian Campbell sells mansion for $2.8 million

Former Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell last month sold his five-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot mansion in Lincoln Park for $2.8 million.

Campbell, 35, was with the Blackhawks from 2008 to 2011, when he was traded to his current team, the Florida Panthers. The Ontario native is most remembered for an assist on the goal that won the 2010 Stanley Cup for the Blackhawks.

Campbell paid $3.05 million in 2009 for the Lincoln Park mansion from its builder. Even after leaving the Blackhawks, he kept the mansion for several years. He first listed it in May for $2.895 million and later cut his asking price to $2.795 million and then to $2.749 million before going under contract in September.

Features include 4-1/2 baths, a great room with built-ins and a fireplace, a wine cellar, a master suite with an infinity tub, a wet bar on the third floor that opens to two outdoor spaces, and a built-in outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven and a fireplace.

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Toews inks deal to sell Lakeshore East condo

Chicago Blackhawks team captain Jonathan Toews has signed a deal to sell his three-bedroom Lakeshore East condominium unit to an unidentified buyer after it was on the market for less than five days listed at $2.3 million.

Listing agent Jennifer Ames on Monday updated the unit's status to reflect that it's under contract. Ames could not be immediately reached for comment.

Real estate sources say Toews simply is looking to trade up — likely into a single-family house — and move farther north. Toews signed an eight-year, $84 million contract extension with the Blackhawks in July.

Toews, 26, on Wednesday listed the 39th-floor unit in a high-rise in Lakeshore East. It has 2-1/2 baths, large terraces, high ceilings, two balconies, hardwood floors, an upgraded eat-in kitchen and a master suite with a walk-in closet.

Toews bought the Lakeshore East unit in mid-2012, paying $2.05 million. He previously had owned a 32nd-floor unit in a building closer to the lake, which he sold in August 2013...

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East Lake Shore Drive condo sale price ranks 3rd in city

A five-bedroom, 7,662-square-foot penthouse condo in the vintage Mayfair building on East Lake Shore Drive came on the market Friday afternoon for $15.5 million.

The unit's $2,000-per-square-foot asking price is almost unheard of in Chicago.

The asking price for the unit is the third-highest for a residence of any kind in Chicago, after the $32 million price tag for the penthouse atop Trump International Hotel

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Blackhawks' Toews lists Lakeshore East condo

Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews has placed his three-bedroom Lakeshore East condominium unit on the market for $2.25 million and is said to be on the hunt for larger home.

Blackhawks fans shouldn't worry about his future with the team. He Given the eight-year, $84 million contract extension he signed in July, he's most likely trading up to a larger, more expensive place. According to real estate sources, Toews recently has been looking at single-family homes in Lincoln Park with his real estate agent, Jennifer Ames.

Ames could not be reached for comment.

On Wednesday, Toews, 26, listed his 39th-floor unit in Lakeshore East, which has 21/2 baths, large terraces, high ceilings, two balconies, hardwood floors, an upgraded eat-in kitchen and a master suite with a walk-in closet. He paid $2.05 million for it in mid-2012. And he previously owned a 32nd-floor unit in a building farther east in Lakeshore East, which he sold in August 2013 for $1.63 million.

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Family of the late John Hughes donates mansion

The family of the late movie director John Hughes announced Monday that it is donating one of the family's two mansions in east Lake Forest to Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital as part of a fundraising campaign for a new hospital.

The move comes as the seven-bedroom, 11,233-square-foot mansion on Westminster Avenue had languished on the market for the past three years. Hughes and his wife, Nancy, had long owned and occupied the Westminster Avenue mansion.

Hughes wrote, produced and directed movies set and filmed in the northern suburbs such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "The Breakfast Club," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Home Alone." Hughes died in August 2009 at age 59 of a heart attack in New York.

Several months after Hughes' death, Nancy Hughes paid $5.2 million for a 17-room, 6,700-square-foot mansion about a block from Lake Michigan. In 2011 she placed the Westminster Avenue mansion on the market for $5.89 million. In early 2013, she cut her asking price to $4.995...

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