A prominent Chicago personal-injury attorney who represented Northwestern University athletes during a hazing scandal that cost the school’s football coach his job has listed his six-bedroom, 4,837-square-foot Nantucket-style house in Winnetka for $2.4 million.
Patrick A. Salvi II, who is the managing partner of Chicago-based law firm Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, and his wife, Julianna, listed their Winnetka home for sale on May 18, eight years after they paid $1.88 million for it. The home is now under contract to sell to a buyer. In late 2023, the couple paid $4 million for a 6,131-square-foot home on 2.5 acres on a private road farther south in Winnetka. Since then, they have been extensively renovating that larger home.
Now, the Salvis have listed their Nantucket-style home, which is in Winnetka’s Hubbard Woods area. Built in 2015, the house has five and a half bathrooms, a white chef’s kitchen, a family room with built-ins and a coffered ceiling, an office with custom built-ins, a dining room, a sitting room, a mudroom and a primary bedroom suite with two walk-in closets and a bathroom that has heated floors and dual vanities.
The house also has a finished third floor, as well as a finished lower level with a large recreation room, a wet bar, a gym and a sixth bedroom.
Salvi’s first actions representing Northwestern athletes came in 2023, when he filed a lawsuit on behalf of two anonymous Black football players who claimed that African American players were forced to cut their hair and conform to other behavior. The suits occurred shortly after a university investigation into hazing that concluded that knowledge of the hazing was widespread in the football program. Salvi also told the Tribune at the time that he perceived a widespread hazing problem at Northwestern, given accounts by athletes from different teams combined with prior allegations of sexist mistreatment of former cheerleaders.
Ultimately, more than 20 lawsuits were filed against Northwestern related to hazing on its sports teams, at least seven of which were filed by Salvi’s firm. The former football players’ suits were resolved last year in a confidential settlement.
In the wake of the hazing scandal, the university fired then-head football coach Pat Fitzgerald in 2023 after 17 years in the job, and soon afterward he sued Northwestern for $130 million. The two sides settled his case last August, with terms that were not disclosed. Several weeks later, the university’s president, Michael Schill, resigned after a host of controversies including the hazing scandal, pressure from the federal government, allegations of failing to counter antisemitism and Northwestern’s handling of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus’ Deering Meadow.
The house that the Salvis are trying to sell had a $48,949 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year. Their new home had an $80,344 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.
Patrick Salvi did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Listing agent Katie Moor declined to comment.
More Top Picks Visual Processing Disorder Symptoms In School Age Kids
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.