Chicago Bears Quarterback Buys Gurnee Home

GURNEE, IL – Chicago Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky bought a six-bedroom home in Gurnee for $950,000–a home that, oddly enough, was also once owned by another former Bears player. The home at 6562 Persimmon Way overlooks the Merit Club Golf Course and has a Libertyville mailing address. The 5,500-square foot home was built in 2005 and was also once owned by former Bears wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad.

Trubisky was drafted as the Bears new quarterback in 2017 as the second overall pick in the draft.

The spacious home, which went off the market in September 2017, has a top of the line gourmet kitchen, a walkout basement, a recreation room with a full wet bar and stone fireplace, exercise room, 6.5 bathrooms, outdoor kitchen, fire pit and outdoor hot tub, according to the realtor.com listing. The grand foyer leads to a two-story family room that has a wall of windows. There is also a first floor den and a first floor nanny bedroom with a full bathroom.

Trubisky got a much better deal on the home than Muhammad. Muhammad paid $1.425 million for the home in 2005 and ended up taking a huge loss on the home when he sold it in 2011 for $940,000, according to the Chicago Tribune. Trubisky paid $950,000 for the home.

“My client, after an extensive search, chose his first Chicago-area home based on a number of factors. The deciding factor was the proximity to the Bears’ training center as so much of his time is spent there,” Erica Goldman of Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, who represented Trubisky, told the Chicago Tribune. “He also focused on the home’s location, with its convenient access to the expressways, city and airports to complement his lifestyle and influx of visiting friends and family. And as is the key with all of my high-profile clients, the most important factor was privacy and security, and this home met all of that criteria.”

For more information and photos, visit realtor.com.