NPR’s Peter Sagal, host of ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!’, sells Oak Park home for $505,000 – Chicago Tribune

Peter Sagal, the longtime host of the Nationwide Public Radio sport present “Wait Wait…Don’t Inform Me!,” on April 26 offered his four-bedroom, 2,149-square-foot classic stucco home in Oak Park for $505,000.

For twenty-four years, Sagal, 57, has hosted the favored Chicago-based NPR program, which airs domestically on WBEZ-FM. Till not too long ago, for all of that point, Sagal had lived in Oak Park. He paid $433,000 in 2016 for the house that he simply offered.

Now, Sagal informed Elite Avenue, amid some latest main life modifications, he has decamped from Oak Park and moved north. Sagal raised a household in Oak Park along with his first spouse, and after his divorce, Sagal remarried 4 years in the past. Now, Sagal and his second spouse, Mara, have simply had a child, and his second spouse’s household is all positioned on the North Shore, he mentioned, “so we determined it might be nice to boost our son and no matter different youngsters come after that close to (my spouse’s) mom, sister, nieces and nephews. In order that’s why we (moved).”

Consequently, Sagal and his spouse have bought a home in Highland Park for $900,000.

In-built 1921, Sagal’s now-former Oak Park dwelling has three loos, a first-floor toilet with hand-painted tiles and a pedestal sink, and a fuel hearth in the lounge flanked by customized oak bookcases and sconces. Different options embrace a sunroom off the lounge, a second-floor loft, and a kitchen with a skylight, a built-in breakfast nook, chrome steel home equipment, cherry cupboards and granite counter tops.

The 12-room home additionally has a brand new mud room with a heated flooring and built-ins and a brand-new storage.

Sagal first listed the Oak Park home in March for $500,000, and offered it for barely above its asking value.

The home had an $11,625 property tax invoice within the 2020 tax 12 months.

Goldsborough is a contract author.

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