Former Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife, Diana, on Friday sold their eight-bedroom, 6,870-square-foot Nantucket-style mansion in Winnetka for $2.75 million.
A former private equity firm executive who in 2014 told the Tribune that he was worth at least $500 million, Rauner, 63, lost re-election in November to J.B. Pritzker, and he left office in mid-January.
In Winnetka, the Rauners built their mansion on Rosewood Avenue in 1996 on land they had purchased the previous year for $830,000. It has six baths, four fireplaces, millwork, high ceilings, a living room with a library, a dining room with a butler’s pantry, a great room, a kitchen with a breakfast room, a roof deck, a master suite with a spa bath and a lower level with a rec room.
The house sits on a 0.51-acre property in a neighborhood just west of Green Bay Road. The Rauners first listed the mansion in April for just under $3 million and never reduced their asking price.
Listing agent Jena Radnay did not respond to a request for comment.
The Rauners also own two condominium units in the 340 on the Park condominium building at 340 E. Randolph St. on the Near East Side. They paid $4.06 million in 2008 for a 61st-floor penthouse unit and that same year paid $1.23 million for a 41st-floor unit.
Outside of Illinois, the Rauners also own several other homes around the U.S., including a penthouse cooperative unit at 50 Central Park West in New York City, which they purchased in 2005 for $10 million, and a four-bedroom, 5,370-square-foot mansion on Card Sound in Key Largo, Fla., which they purchased in 2003 for $5.6 million.
Public records do not yet identify the buyers of the Rauners’ Winnetka mansion.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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