Chicago’s real estate elite

Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews paid more than $3.5 million for a 6,000-square-foot mansion on Chicago’s North Side.  (Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)

Frank Thomas¿ 41-room, 25,000-square-foot contemporary-style mansion in Oak Brook built in the 1990s sold for $2.71 million.  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)

Noted attorney Ted Tetzlaff lists nine-bedroom, 15,000-square-foot Theurer-Wrigley mansion in Lincoln Park for $8.695 million.  (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews has signed a deal to sell his $2.3 M three-bedroom Lakeshore East condominium unit to an unidentified buyer after it was on the market for less than five days.  (Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)

Retired NBA star Quentin Richardson sold his five-bedroom, 10,900-square-foot mansion in Palos Heights for $800,000.  (Hector Gabino / McClatchy-Tribune)

Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah paid $3 million for a 7,000-square-foot-plus home that puts him near the United Center on the Near West Side.  (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

Former Chicago Blackhawks right wing Rene Bourque, paid $1.5 million for a newly constructed house in the Roscoe Village neighborhood.  (Francois Laplante/Getty-Freestyle)

Former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith, now head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has listed his 13-room home in Lake Forest for $1.99 million.   (Cliff McBride/Getty Images)

The Georgian mansion on Sheridan Road that was built for a brewing executive who headed Pabst Brewing Co. sold earlier this month for just over $4.8 million.  (Michael Walker / Chicago Tribune)

Quentin Richardson, the Detroit Pistons’ director of player development, lists his Palos Heights home for $1.1 million, half of what he paid for it.  (Bruce Bennett/Getty)

Restaurateur Grant DePorter, who heads Harry Caray¿s Restaurant Group, has paid $1.51 million for a four-bedroom, duplex penthouse unit in a condominium building in River North.  (Travis Haughton / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago native and retired NBA star Quentin Richardson, who was a standout for DePaul University before embarking on a 12-year career as a swingman with five teams, has listed his five-bedroom, 10,900-square-foot mansion in Palos Heights for $1.1 million.  (Hector Gabino / McClatchy-Tribune)

L. Dick Buell, retired CEO of St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Catalina Marketing paid $3.36 million to buy a three-bedroom, 79th-floor condominium in Trump International Hotel & Tower in downtown Chicago from personal-injury attorney Patrick Salvi.  (Alex Garcia / Chicago Tribune)

Former Chicago Bulls guard Ben Gordon, whom the Orlando Magic recently signed to a two-year deal, has listed his three-bedroom town home in a gated community in Northbrook for $475,000.  (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Bears offensive guard Kyle Long paid $1.35 million for a five-bedroom brick Georgian-style house in Lake Forest.  (Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune)

Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster sold a five-bedroom, 5,300-square-foot house in Lakeview for $1.765 million.  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)

Recently traded Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija sold his three-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot condominium unit in the Southport Corridor area of west Lakeview for $600,000.  (Otto Greule Jr / Getty Images)

Former Chicago Bears punter Adam Podlesh has sold his five-bedroom, 4,248-square-foot house in Libertyville for $879,500.  (Chris Sweda/ Chicago Tribune)

Former Chicago Public Schools board President Gery Chico placed his three-bedroom, 2,400-square-foot condominium unit in the Metropolitan Tower on South Michigan Ave. on the market for $2.65 million.  (Alex Garcia / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago-born actress and comedian Nora Dunn, an alumna of TV¿s “Saturday Night Live,â€� has sold her two-bedroom vintage condominium unit in Ukrainian Village for $258,500 and paid $185,000 for a condo unit in Evanston.  (Joel Wintermantle / Chicago Tribune)

Former First Options CEO Timothy Mullen, now a private investor and part-owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, put his 20,000-square-foot Lincoln Park mansion on the market at $18.75 million, making it the city’s highest-priced single-family home listing.  (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Cubs TV broadcaster Jim Deshaies and his wife have paid $1.35 million for a two-bedroom, 2,212-square-foot condominium unit on the 40th floor of a River North tower.  (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune)

Former Chicago White Sox pitcher Jose Contreras on Wednesday sold his seven-room condominium unit on Lake Shore Drive on the Gold Coast for $825,000.  (Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)

The five-bedroom, 6,700-square-foot ranch-style house on 2.5 acres near downtown Geneva that actress, model and comedienne Jenny McCarthy had rented for the past few years came on the market on May 20 for $2.275 million.  (Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Images)

Congressman Mike Quigley, D-5th, has sold his six-bedroom house in Lakeview for $1.26 million as part of a decision to downsize.  (Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)

NBC 5 president and general manager David Doebler has paid $2.8375 million for a three-bedroom, 3,102-square-foot condominium unit in Trump Tower in Rver North.  (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Three years after he pulled his massive condo unit in a 60-story River North high-rise off the market, former Blackhawks goaltender Cristobal Huet listed it again on Tuesday for $2.495 million. Huet, 38, played for the Blackhawks from 2008 to 2010.   (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Blackhawks forward Brandon Bollig has just paid $810,000 for a three-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot loft condominium unit in River North.  (Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune)

Chicago philanthropist Deborah Bricker sold her 9,000-square-foot, vintage Gold Coast mansion for $7.13 million. Full story  (Phil Greer/ Chicago Tribune photo)

WLS-AM afternoon co-host Roe Conn on listed his five-bedroom, Lincoln Park home for $2.88 million. Full story  (Marina Makropoulos/ Photo for the Chicago Tribune)

Retired Illinois Tool Works chairman and Chief Executive W. James Farrell listed his seven-bedroom, 12,320-square-foot mansion in Lake Forest for almost $7 million.  (Jim Prisching/Chicago Tribune)

The four-bedroom, raised ranch-style house in west suburban Glendale Heights where Smashing Pumpkins founder and frontman Billy Corgan spent much of his preteen and teenage years sold on April 30 for $170,000.  (Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune)

James Reynolds Jr., the founder, chairman and CEO of Loop Capital, and his wife Sandy have listed his seven-bedroom, Georgian-style mansion in Kenwood for $2.85 million. Reynolds at their headquarters Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013.

WLS radio personality Roe Conn (left)has sold his five-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot brick and limestone mansion in Lincoln Park for $2.59 million in February.  (Shauna Bittle / Chicago Tribune)