Real Estate
Tom Waddle Sells Lake Forest Home
The sports broadcaster and former Chicago Bears owned home on Onwentsia Road for five years.
Former Chicago Bears player and current radio and television broadcaster Tom Waddle sold his 8,100-square-foot Lake Forest home this week, Crain’s Chicago reports.
The yard is so big and expansive, why, you could play a great family pickup game of football there.
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The 15-room house on 1.78 acres of property near the Onwentsia Club sold March 30 for $3.25 million - $50,000 more than the amount they paid for the Ontwentsia Road home five years ago. The Waddles have put the home on the market in the past with no luck.
Now a broadcaster for both WLS-TV/Channel 7 and ESPN 1000, Waddle was a wide receiver for the Bears from 1989 to 1994 and has been in broadcasting since his retirement.
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