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Mack Family's Former Oak Park Home Hits the Market

Oak Park police went to this home 86 times over 10 years to settle fights between Heather Mack and her mother, Sheila von-Wiese Mack.

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Before she was convicted of murder, before she had her baby girl, before she was on trial and before she ever went on vacation in Indonesia, Heather Mack lived in this house, the “Charles Castle Home,” at 647 Linden Ave., Oak Park.

The Charles Castle Home went back on the market not long before Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer were found guilty of premeditated murder in the beating death of Sheila von-Wiese Mack. It‘s been listed on real estate website Zillow.com since April 8.

Heather Mack lived in this home with von Wiese-Mack, and her father, James Mack, before he died in 2006.

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This is where Oak Park police went 86 times over 10 years, when tensions boiled over and arguments or violence broke out between mother and daughter.

“Police were here all the time,” one neighbor told the Tribune. “They would call police on each other. It turned very abusive and volatile.”

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The house moved into von Wiese-Mack’s name after James Mack’s death, according to Cook County records. In 2013, von Wiese-Mack sold the home and moved into a Lake Shore Drive apartment.

The house was built in 1924. It has 12 rooms, including five bedrooms and 4.5 baths. The four levels have mahogany trips, hardwood floors, a cook’s kitchen and a sunny family room. There’s a tile roof, copper gutters, updated plumbing and electric and terraces in the front and the back.

Find more information about this house on Zillow.com.

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