Former Chicago Bears player Mike Adamle sells one Elgin home for $639,000 and buys another

Former Chicago Bears running back and former Chicago TV sports anchor Mike Adamle and his educational psychologist wife, Kim, in March sold their five-bedroom, 3,478-square-foot house in Elgin for $639,000 and paid $665,000 for a newly built, ranch-style house just a short distance away.

Adamle was a standout running back at Northwestern University and then had a six-year career in the NFL, including two years with the Bears. After that, he had a long career as a broadcaster, including as a sports anchor on three Chicago TV stations for more than a quarter-century. Now battling post-traumatic epilepsy and also, according to his doctors, showing symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, Adamle retired from WMAQ-Channel 5 in 2017.

Adamle and his wife were longtime Evanston residents. They moved to Elgin to be near their children after the COVID-19 pandemic began — a choice made easier by some problems they experienced with the building they had been living in Evanston. So they paid $526,870 for the two-story Elgin house, which was built in 2017.

The house has four bathrooms, hardwood floors and a family room with a fireplace. However, the stairs wound up becoming an impediment for Adamle, his wife said, and the couple decided to sell the Elgin house and move into a ranch house that they bought elsewhere in the neighborhood.

“This is the latest thing where we’ve done what we’ve needed to. We were getting to the point where he wasn’t safe with stair steps, and fortunately, we found a nice house built by a wonderful, wonderful builder,” Kim Adamle told Elite Street.

Demand for newer suburban homes remains robust, and the Adamles’ two-story house sold immediately for more than $100,000 more than the couple had paid for it in 2020. Its listing was not placed into real estate agents’ multiple listing service until after a deal had been struck.

“We didn’t even have to put our home on the market. It sold right away,” Kim Adamle told Elite Street.

The house that the couple sold had a $16,684 property tax bill in the 2020 tax year.

Goldsborough is a freelance writer.

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