Peter Sagal, the longtime host of the National Public Radio game show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!,” on April 26 sold his four-bedroom, 2,149-square-foot vintage stucco house in Oak Park for $505,000.
For 24 years, Sagal, 57, has hosted the popular Chicago-based NPR program, which airs locally on WBEZ-FM. Until recently, for all of that time, Sagal had lived in Oak Park. He paid $433,000 in 2016 for the home that he just sold.
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Now, Sagal told Elite Street, amid some recent major life changes, he has decamped from Oak Park and moved north. Sagal raised a family in Oak Park with his first wife, and after his divorce, Sagal remarried four years ago. Now, Sagal and his second wife, Mara, have just had a baby, and his second wife’s family is all located on the North Shore, he said, “so we decided it would be great to raise our son and whatever other children come after that near (my wife’s) mother, sister, nieces and nephews. So that’s why we (moved).”
As a result, Sagal and his wife have purchased a house in Highland Park for $900,000.
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Built in 1921, Sagal’s now-former Oak Park home has three bathrooms, a first-floor bathroom with hand-painted tiles and a pedestal sink, and a gas fireplace in the living room flanked by custom oak bookcases and sconces. Other features include a sunroom off the living room, a second-floor loft, and a kitchen with a skylight, a built-in breakfast nook, stainless steel appliances, cherry cabinets and granite countertops.
The 12-room house also has a new mud room with a heated floor and built-ins and a brand-new garage.
Sagal first listed the Oak Park house in March for $500,000, and sold it for slightly above its asking price.
The house had an $11,625 property tax bill in the 2020 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance writer.
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