John McDonough, the longtime president of the Chicago Blackhawks\u00a0and the president of the Chicago Cubs before that, on June 27 sold his three-bedroom, 3,694-square-foot house in Wheaton for $970,000.<\/p>\n
McDonough introduced numerous innovations during his 17 years with the Cubs, including the annual Cubs Convention and initiating the idea of a guest conductor singing the seventh-inning stretch after broadcaster Harry Caray\u2019s death in 1998.\u00a0\u00a0McDonough\u2019s greatest leadership successes, however, came during his tenure with the Blackhawks, which he led as president from 2007 until 2020 \u2014 a time when they won three Stanley Cup titles.<\/p>\n
Through an opaque land trust that masks his identity, McDonough paid a little less than $855,000 in 2021 to buy the Wheaton house from its homebuilder, and he subsequently made many upgrades to it, according to listing information.\u00a0Built in 2018 and located in the low-maintenance Loretto Club community, the home was used as that subdivision\u2019s model home.\u00a0It has 4-1\/2 bathrooms, custom Hunter Douglas motorized blinds, a whole house sound system, an eat-in kitchen with an oversized island, a walk-in pantry, a first-floor primary bedroom suite with a custom shower, a first-floor den with built-ins, a second-floor entertaining space and a finished lower level with a gym, a bar area and a bonus room with a closet.<\/p>\n
Outside on the 0.21-acre property is a covered deck.<\/p>\n
McDonough told Elite Street in an interview that he sold the house to move back to Elmhurst, the town where he had lived before moving to Wheaton.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandkids are in Park Ridge, and I\u2019m very active with them, and I just wanted to get closer,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI think Wheaton is a wonderful, wonderful community, and I enjoyed it.\u00a0The downtown area is spectacular, the people couldn\u2019t have been nicer and the Loretto Club is a great place to live.\u00a0The house sold quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, McDonough first listed the house in April for $1.049 million, and he went under contract to sell it just six days later.<\/p>\n
McDonough called the drive from Wheaton to Park Ridge \u201ca haul,\u201d even more so with Interstate 294 under construction.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a haul from anywhere (right now),\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cThis cuts the drive in half.\u201d<\/p>\n
McDonough said he became familiar with Wheaton in part because he has a family member living in the area, as well as a friend, former Cubs pitcher Dave Otto, who in January was named an assistant baseball coach at North Central College in Naperville.<\/p>\n
Joseph Ratterman, who was one of two co-listing agents representing McDonough, declined to comment on the sale.<\/p>\n
The house had an $18,103 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.\u00a0Homeowners association dues are an additional $155 a month.<\/p>\n
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John McDonough, the longtime president of the Chicago Blackhawks\u00a0and the president of the Chicago Cubs before that, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,4087,37,96,5263,4086,5,1180,4,4088],"class_list":{"0":"post-169203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","12":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","13":"tag-elite-street","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-real-estate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115083203404101958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}