WLS-Channel 7 chief investigative reporter Chuck Goudie on Friday placed his six-bedroom, 6,204-square-foot French chateau-style mansion in Hinsdale on the market for $3.995 million.
An inveterate newshound who is known for his many scoops as well as a shelf full of broadcasting’s top awards, Goudie, 68, has been ABC 7’s lead investigative reporter since 1990. A Michigan native, Goudie joined the station in 1980.
Goudie has been a longtime Hinsdale resident. He and his late wife Teri, who died in 2022, previously owned another Hinsdale house several blocks away. Through a land trust, the couple purchased their current homesite in 2005 for $1.5 million and hired the homebuilding firm Patrick J. Murphy Builders to construct their 16-room home.
The house has 7-1/2 bathrooms, four fireplaces, a family room with a wet bar and a double-sided fireplace, a screened porch and a basement with 11-foot ceilings, a recreation room, a wet bar and a billiards area. The primary bedroom suite has a private balcony and two bathrooms and closets, and the third floor has a bonus room.
Outside on the 0.46-acre property is a swimming pool.
“With just one person living in a big house, it makes no sense to hang onto it,” Goudie told Elite Street. “So I’m selling it and hoping that a family with lots of children will enjoy the home as much as mine has. I plan to relocate in the area.”
Although Goudie is downsizing, he said he has no intention of pulling back from his work at ABC 7.
“My team and I continue to plow ahead at ABC and I’m looking forward to many more years of reporting,” he said.
Goudie previously had listed the home for $4.2 million in 2015. He lowered his asking price to $3.995 million in 2018 before taking it off the market the following year. Now, almost five years later, it’s back on the market at the same $3.995 million asking price.
The mansion had a $53,184 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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