Khalil Mack Snags Recently Completed Glencoe Mansion: Report

GLENCOE, IL — Chicago Bears linebacker Khalil Mack last week completed the purchase of a newly built Glencoe mansion, according to the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street column. With his recent six-year contract guaranteeing $90 million, Mack is the highest-paid defensive player in league history. But as far as high-end real estate on the North Shore goes, the winner of the the 2017 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award opted for a comparatively modest choice, spending $3.75 million on a 9,300-square-foot six-bedroom completed earlier this year.

The two-story stone home includes a custom-built library, en-suite marble bathrooms and walk-in closets in each bedroom, a screen-in porch with one of the homes four fireplaces overlooking the yard, and kitchen with a waterfall edge island, a slate roof, copper gutters and vaulted ceilings with skylights.

The 3,200 square feet of finished lower level space includes a basketball court (Mack was a standout basketball player who suffered an injury in high school who didn't start playing football until his senior year), a large entertainment space, a media room, a wine cellar and a yoga studio.

According to Elite Street, Mack – now one of the highest paid Chicago athletes in any sport – bought the home through a trust that conceals its owner.

The sellers were representatives of the builders, Newgard Custom Homes, a spin-off the Birov family's prolific Heritage Luxury Home builders, according to public records.

The firm is known for demolishing aging (and sometimes not-so-aging) North Shore houses to build massive new construction mansions in their place.

Public records indicate the house that used to sit on the site of Mack's new home was built in 1913 by Robert Seyfarth, a prominent Highland Park-based designer of homes mostly in Chicago and its suburbs.

According to the Cook County Assessor's Office, the Forest Avenue property has an estimated 2018 market value of $2,074,070. Its most recent property tax bill was nearly $31,000. Local school districts include West School, Central School and New Trier High School.

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