Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 news anchor Joan Esposito on Monday placed her six-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot home in Winnetka on the market for $1.935 million.
Esposito, 63, was a top news anchor in Chicago for two decades until leaving NBC 5 in 1999 and starting her own media training firm, J2 Strategic Communications.
Esposito paid $1.9 million in 2005 for the three-story home. Custom-built by Andrzej Kruszewski and featuring handmade brick, the house has 51/2 baths, four fireplaces, a second-floor laundry room, an office with built-ins and a kitchen with a six-burner Wolf range, two warming drawers, two Sub-Zero refrigerators, two microwave ovens, an island and a butler’s pantry. Other features include a finished lower level with a sixth bedroom, a fireplace, a theater and a wet bar.
“It’s an incredibly beautiful custom-built home,” said listing agent Sherry Molitor of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff. “And it sits on a 190-foot-deep lot. That’s deep by Winnetka standards. It’s a tremendous property.”
Molitor added that the fact that Esposito’s home was not a spec home means that “it is above and beyond most new or newer construction properties.” She also touted the home’s central location in Winnetka, which is close to downtown Winnetka, the train station, schools and parks.
Molitor said that with her children now out of the house, Esposito plans to move to the city.
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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