Named in 2017 to the National Hockey League’s list of its 100 greatest players of all time and indisputably one of the greatest Blackhawks of all time, Kane, 36, had a 17-year career with the Blackhawks before he was traded to the New York Rangers in 2023. He now skates for the Detroit Red Wings.

Kane long has been an owner in the Trump building. He paid $2.06 million in 2008 to buy a 33th-floor unit from the building’s developer, and he continues to own that condo to this day. Then, in 2016, through an opaque land trust that conceals his identity, Kane paid $3.1 million for the 69th-floor unit.

Now, Kane has taken a nearly $1 million loss on the 69th-floor condo. He first listed it for $3 million in May 2024, and he cut his asking price to $2.7 million in November and then to $2.5 million in February. He struck a deal to sell the unit on March 12.

Features in the condo, which faces south and east, include four full bathrooms, 10-foot ceilings, dual fireplaces, brand-new nine-inch-wide flooring and a kitchen with Snaidero cabinets, iceberg quartzite countertops with a waterfall edge and Wolf, Miele and Sub-Zero stainless steel appliances. The condo’s primary bedroom suite has dual walk-in closets and a bathroom with dual vanities.

In a brief interview with Elite Street, Kane’s mother, Donna, confirmed that her son had sold the 69th-floor unit but declined to comment further.

Though he no longer is a Blackhawk, Kane still owns multiple other Chicago-area properties. In addition to the 33th-floor condo in the Trump building, he owns a four-bedroom, 4,776-square-foot condominium on the 25th floor of the building at 9 W. Walton Street on the Near North Side, which he purchased for $6.46 million in 2019. Kane also reportedly paid $5 million in 2022 for a five-bedroom, 5,932-square-foot house Greek Revival-style house close to Lake Michigan in Lake Forest.

The 69th-floor unit in the Trump building had a $20,764 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year. However, the condo comes with a $3,654-a-month assessment as well, bringing the combined annual cost of property taxes and assessments to $64,612.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.

Listed: March 26, 2025

Price: $2,190,000

Listing agent: Lisa Huber, Jameson Sotheby’s, 312-751-0300

This renovated three-bedroom, four-bath condo on the northwest corner of the 54th floor of the Water Tower Residences in Streeterville has views of the lake and the city skyline. The en-suite primary bedroom has dual spa-like baths, a steam shower and two walk-in closets. The other two bedrooms each have private baths, with one that features a Kohler bubble tub and the other bedroom offering a convertible space with dual access. The kitchen has custom cabinetry, quartzite counters, a large island and Bosch appliances. The unit also has a dry bar with a beverage fridge and a walk-in pantry. Residents have access to amenities at the Ritz-Carlton, including a fitness center, pool, spa, room service, a concierge and 24-hour door staff.

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Foyer

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Living space

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Kitchen

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Dining space

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Bedroom

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Closet

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Bedroom

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Bathroom

Streeterville 3-bedroom with lake and skyline views, steam shower: Bathroom

Some listing photos are “virtually staged,” meaning they have been digitally altered to represent different furnishing or decorating options.

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Price: $3,800,000

Listed: March 31, 2025

This six-bedroom home has five full bathrooms, two half baths, four fireplaces, a herringbone marble foyer and a cherry-paneled office. The kitchen has an island and hardwood floors. The primary suite features a breakfast bar, his-and-her walk-in closets, and a bathroom with oversized vanities and a soaking tub. The lower level has a rec room with a fireplace, a gym with an adjacent sauna, a theater room and a wine room. An outdoor kitchen, an outdoor fireplace and a three-car garage complete this home.

Listing agent: Leslie Maguire, @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, 847-881-0200

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Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Herringbone marble foyer

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Herringbone marble foyer

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Living area

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Living area

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Kitchen

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Dining area

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Office

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Bedroom

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Bathroom

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Gym

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Sauna

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Garage

Glencoe 6-bedroom with herringbone marble foyer: Rear

A former Chicago Tribune reporter, Axelrod, 70, also worked as a senior adviser in the Obama White House from 2009 until 2011. Early last year, he stepped down as the director of the U. of C.’s Institute of Politics, although he remains there as a senior fellow.

In Buchanan, which is a small community in southwest Michigan, the Axelrods bought the property in 1998. They converted the main structure on the property, a barn dating to 1857, into a house with four bedrooms, 4 ½ bathrooms and three-season porches with fireplaces on each level.

The property also has a four-bedroom guesthouse with two bathrooms, a kitchen, a great room, a screened porch and a full basement. Other features include a detached three-car garage, a fitness studio, an infinity pool, a pool house, woods, rolling terrain and a pond.

“It’s an incredible amount of space for a family compound. Spaces like this come up rarely because most of the time, investors carve them up,” listing agent Ronald Zarantenello of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate told Elite Street. “The main house is a converted 1857 barn, and (the Axelrods) did an incredible job when they transformed it. It has high ceilings, and when you’re in these spaces, it really reinforces the fact that you’re In an original barn and not one of these ‘barn-dominiums’ that so many are building (nowadays).”

Zarantenello added that the estate’s guesthouse offers separate living spaces.

“The way the guesthouse was decorated offers a country lodge feel,” he said. “And the pool with the pool house is between the main house and the guesthouse, and the pool’s infinity edge feels like it flows right into the pond.”

The Axelrods also have a home in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.

Vantive, which formerly operated as Baxter’s Kidney Care segment, will invest $23 million in the headquarters site at 510 Lake Cook Road. Equipment manufacturer Caterpillar formerly occupied the site.

The new headquarters will allow Vantive to expand its facilities and pharmacy operations, creating at least 50 new full-time jobs, according to a news release.

“We are proud to continue our legacy of innovation in Deerfield, Illinois, which has served as an important anchor for our mission-driven work over the last several decades,” Vantive CEO Chris Toth said in the news release. “Illinois offers a strong healthcare ecosystem, a highly skilled workforce, and a supportive business environment — all of which provide an ideal foundation for Vantive’s next phase of success.

Gov. JB Pritzker, who attended a ribbon-cutting at the new headquarters Friday, said Vantive’s investment in Illinois will establish the state as a leader in the organ therapy sector.

“Illinois is at the center of an innovation ecosystem that will deliver history-altering advancements to the world, and Vantive is a perfect example of that mission,” Pritzker said.

Jenkins, 27, was drafted by the Bears in 2021 and signed to a four-year rookie contract. The guard played in 45 games with the Bears through this past season, making 38 starts and pivoting after originally having been envisioned as the team’s left tackle of the future. In March, the Bears made three additions to the team’s offensive line, seemingly leaving Jenkins, a Kansas native, without a spot. As a result, Jenkins opted to exit, signing a one-year contract with the Cleveland Browns.

Jenkins paid $570,000 in 2021 for the house, which is in the Centennial Crossing area, close to Vernon Hills’ Metra depot. The home has four bathrooms, a two-story foyer, hardwood floors, a first-floor office, a formal dining room, a family room with a fireplace and a kitchen with Thermador appliances, white shaker cabinetry and a cherry island topped with granite.

Other features include a finished basement with a large rec room and wet bar, and a primary bedroom suite with a custom walk-in closet and a glass-enclosed shower and dual vanities. Outside on the property are a custom paver patio and an attached two-car garage.

Listing agent Jeff Ohm did not respond to a request for comment.

On April 15, Jenkins listed the house at $785,000, and it went under contract to sell just three days later.

The house had a $17,092 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.

Salvatore “Sam” Cecola, who built the 17,597-square-foot, French Provincial-style home at 45 Lakeview Lane in 2008, first tried to sell it for $15.9 million in 2013. He knocked the price down to $12.5 million in 2016 and to $7.5 million in 2020.

The three-story, six-bedroom mansion was under contract in 2021 and 2022, but the deals fell through.

Michael LaFido, the listing broker of the LUXE Group, couldn’t be reached for comment, and the buyer’s identity is not yet known.

It’s not unusual for opulent suburban homes to go unsold for extended periods. Retired Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan tried to sell his massive Highland Park mansion for about 12 years, once asking $29 million, before selling it last year to John Cooper, a general partner with Lincolnwood-based HAN Capital, for $9.5 million.

The sale of 45 Lakeview Lane is the second most expensive in Barrington Hills history, just below the $7.5 million paid in 2012 for 7 Fox Hunt Road, a 30,500-square foot English-style mansion on a 70-acre estate.

On “Empire,” which aired from 2015 to 2020, Cecola’s mansion was the home of record mogul Lucious Lyon, played by Terrence Howard.

In 2017 the mansion was named by Architectural Digest as the most beautiful home for sale in the state of Illinois. It has 11 baths, floor-to-ceiling windows, barreled and coffered ceilings, detailed millwork, a porte cochere, a walnut-paneled library, an elevator and a walk-out lower level with a home theater, a poker and billiard room and a full bar and kitchen. The 8.5-acre property includes an outdoor pool, a fire pit and a private dock.

Cecola has co-owned the Admiral Theatre strip club on Chicago’s Northwest Side.

Grove Biopharma started in a small space run by tech incubator Portal Innovations at 1375 W. Fulton Market, a 13-story life sciences building, and just moved to 17,000 square feet at 400 N. Aberdeen St. Both buildings are part of Fulton Labs and were developed by Trammell Crow Co.

Portal Innovations got the company through its growing pains by providing laboratories, office space and connections needed to secure financing, said Grove Biopharma President and Chief Technology Officer Paul Bertin.

“That did not exist here in Chicago until Portal Innovations,” he said. “It’s a capital-intensive industry, so if you are a brand-new startup coming out of a university lab, you can’t afford to spend your seed financing on a laboratory.”

The expansion is a good signal for an industry that slowed down, both in Chicago and nationwide, as interest rates rose and some venture capital sources dried up. Chicago developers added about 900,000 square feet of life sciences space in the past three years, pushing up the vacancy rate to 17.6%, a level not seen since 2017, according to Colliers, a commercial real estate firm.

But the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s 2023 decision to select Chicago as the home of the $250 million Chan-Zuckerberg BioHub, founded by Priscilla Chan and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and now at 400 N. Aberdeen, will help the city keep growing its local industry, Colliers said.

Portal Innovations was one of the first groups recruited for 1375 W. Fulton Market, completed in 2020 and now almost fully leased, said Trammell Crow Vice President Morgan Baer Blaska.

Portal Innovations’ work is essential if Chicago wants to retain homegrown life science startups, which once headed to California or Cambridge, Massachusetts, where lab space is much more plentiful, she added. The Chicago region has a lot of the ingredients needed to nurture the biotech industry, especially universities such as Northwestern and the University of Chicago, and a highly educated workforce.

“What had been missing is the real estate component,” Blaska said. “In the past, a company on this growth trajectory would have considered moving to one of the coasts, but both Portal and Fulton Labs have provided an environment where science startups can grow and thrive here in Chicago.”

400 N. Aberdeen is part of Trammell Crow’s more than 2 million-square-foot Fulton Park campus, which includes 1375 W. Fulton Market, a luxury multifamily development and Fulton Market’s only public park. The company also recently finished the 175,000-square-foot Evanston Labs near Northwestern and the 302,000-square-foot Hyde Park Labs near the University of Chicago.

Trammell Crow completed the 16-story 400 N. Aberdeen in 2022, and it’s now more than 30% leased, according to CoStar. Other tenants include the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Chicagoland Climate Investment Alliance and Mattiq, a clean chemistry firm.

Blaska said it’s important for Chicago to have ready-made lab space, as life sciences startups can’t predict scientific breakthroughs or when they will secure funding.

“When the demand pops, the demand pops immediately,” she said.

In January, Huckins was named CEO of the Lake-Forest based maker of Hefty trash bags and Reynolds aluminum wrap, after previously serving as the company’s chief financial officer for a little more than a year.

In Lake Forest, the custom-built stone mansion that Huckins bought was built in 2010 and is situated on a 1.69-acre property. The mansion has eight bathrooms, seven fireplaces, a slate roof, hand-scraped wood floors and a family room with a large fireplace and a custom mantel, along with French doors leading to the backyard.

Other features include a paneled library with a wood-coffered ceiling, a limestone fireplace and built-ins, along with a custom movie projector and screen. The kitchen has a large island, a Wolf range with a hand-made metal hood, Wolf double ovens and a breakfast room.

The home also has a heated sunroom with a fireplace, a large mudroom, an office, a first-floor primary bedroom suite with vaulted ceilings and a fireplace and a full basement with a recreational area and a second kitchen. Outside on the property are a pergola and an expansive patio area.

Lori Glattly of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, who represented Huckins, declined to comment on the transaction.

The mansion had been listed for a time last year for $3.995 million before it was taken off the market.

The property had a $55,994 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.

The report did not name the board member, nor did it get into the details of the incident. The “allegations of misconduct,” the report said, were received in January 2023, including that the commissioner “may have communicated inappropriately with multiple employees in public forums.” Per OIG policy, the complaint was referred to outside counsel.

Francine Washington, who has been on the board since 2014, told the Tribune that she was the board member discussed in the report. 

She said she thinks the report was in reference to a crude comment she made about needing to go home and have sex after CHA’s attorney representing the agency in contract negotiations with the union spoke negatively about one of CHA’s employee union representatives in front of the board. Washington said the attorney said, “Negotiations would have been OK except for you know who,” calling the union rep “a problem.”

Washington said the attorney’s comments “shocked” her and were coming from a place of “white privilege.”

“I said, ‘I need to go home and get laid.’ (My statement had) no sexual connotations against anyone and was not as bad as what she (the attorney) said,” Washington told the Tribune. “I didn’t do anything wrong.”

The report on Washington comes as the CHA is in a tussle with another resident leader about the Chicago Fire soccer team’s land lease deal. The public housing authority, the third-largest in the country, has also been bleeding staff in recent months. Eight high-ranking officials have left the agency since August, including one who was fired. As it reckons with the departures of these senior leaders and searches for a new CEO, the agency has launched a series of initiatives for 2025, including moves meant to increase housing and safety for residents.

In response to Tribune questions, the CHA said in a statement: “The Chicago Housing Authority is committed to fostering a culture of respect and accountability to uphold ethical and professional standards for all stakeholders, including our Commissioners and staff members.” The agency said it could not comment on personnel matters but that “we take all allegations of misconduct seriously.”

Through a spokesperson, Mayor Brandon Johnson declined to comment. The mayor appoints CHA board commissioners.

The OIG also found that the CHA has no harassment policy applicable to the board.

Outside legal counsel recommended, according to the OIG report, that the agency amend the board’s bylaws and employee handbook and that the board undergo annual ethics training.

The bylaw amendment recommendations included a code of conduct that addresses harassment and bullying, a formal reporting and review process to “address commissioner misconduct, with appropriate sanctions, including but not limited to censure, up to and including a recommendation for removal,” and a requirement that board commissioners attend annual training on CHA’s board bylaws, ethics policy “and other topics, including discrimination and harassment.”

The CHA’s interim board chairman, Matthew Brewer, agreed with the OIG’s recommendations, the report said, and confirmed that the agency has engaged outside counsel to help draft amendments to the board’s bylaws. Brewer said in the report that commissioners have participated in annual ethics and sexual harassment training for the last few years and that future training will be held on the code of conduct. CHA did not respond to Tribune questions regarding the status of those bylaw revisions.

The OIG report also says Brewer met with the commissioner whose behavior was in question and that the commissioner “committed to the Chair that they would not engage in similar behavior in the future.”

Washington, known for her candor and direct questions, said she remembers Brewer talking to her after the incident but does not recall the details of the conversation. She said the person she thinks reported her comment, the head of human resources at the CHA, was trying to make her look bad and was mad at her for asking a lot of questions of the agency.

“I tell on myself all the time,” Washington said. “If I say something, I mean what I said, and I’m not going to say something and then deny it.”

Dominick Maniscalco, the CHA’s head of human resources, declined to comment through an attorney he is considering retaining in relation to the matter with Washington.

Separately from the incident with the CHA attorney, Washington said if someone talks to her about religion or politics, she will “ask about their love life” to change the subject. The CHA did not respond to a Tribune question asking whether that line of inquiry would be permitted under the new board bylaws.

Bylaws aside, Washington said she is not going to change her ways.

“All the board members know me,” Washington said. “I don’t change with the weather. … I love being a public housing resident and I love my residents and am not going to do anything to hurt the residents or the authority.”

The Tribune’s Gregory Royal Pratt contributed.

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