Posted by Bud Long on June 05, 2010 at 19:34:31:
Bruce Wolf moves to farm after reaping big loss on town home
Radio talk-show host headed toward Wisconsin border
WLS-AM talk-show host and longtime Chicago TV sports anchor Bruce Wolf is living down on the farm these days.
The wisecracking broadcaster, who last month began hosting a Saturday afternoon talk show on WLS-AM and who still fills in occasionally as a sports anchor on WMAQ-Ch. 5, and his wife recently sold their three-bedroom town home in Deerfield for $365,000. They have moved to a farm in tiny Old Mill Creek in the far north suburbs near the Wisconsin border.
"I thought I married a North Shore princess, but what I really married was a farm girl," Wolf quipped. "I mow the lawn practically every day of the week, because it's like 20 lawns' worth."
Wolf, who also now works part-time as an attorney practicing divorce law in Lake County, and his wife purchased the seven-room town home in 2007 for $550,000 and first listed it last year for $449,999. Wolf's final asking price for the town home was $375,000.
Built in 1998, the home has 2 1/2 baths, a fireplace, granite counters, appliances, terra cotta-style tile and an atrium.
The deal closed April 29.