Dan Roushar, who was hired last year to be the offensive line coach for the Chicago Bears under head coach Ben Johnson, and his wife, Patricia, paid $1.7 million last summer for a six-bedroom, 3,882-square-foot house in Lake Bluff.
A onetime quarterback for Northern Illinois University, Roushar, 65, spent much of his career coaching offenses for college programs, including both his alma mater and the University of Illinois. He also coached various offenses for the New Orleans Saints for close to a decade. After two years at Tulane University, Roushar had intended to retire, but Johnson offered him a coaching opportunity with the Bears, and Roushar signed on with the Bears last February.
In Lake Bluff, the Roushars’ new house is coincidentally just around the corner from the home owned by former Bears head coach Matt Nagy until Nagy sold it in 2022 for $4.45 million.
Built in 2015 and constructed by DRH Cambridge Homes, the Roushars’ new house has 5½ bathrooms, hardwood floors, a family room with a fireplace, a library and a three-car garage and sits on a 0.39-acre property. It had not been publicly listed, and in fact, its sellers only had bought it just seven months before, for $1.575 million.
“We looked at different homes in a lot of different communities, and (the Roushars) wanted Lake Forest or Lake Bluff to become part of the community,” Lisa Trace of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, who represented the Roushars, told Elite Street. “They saw this house and it was the right one. It was off-market, and nothing else seemed to be quite right. Then, someone in my office saw that it was coming soon, and they bought it. They loved being close to work (at Halas Hall), which is really important because of Dan’s schedule.”
Trace has a Bears connection of her own. Her late father, Jim Dooley, played for the Bears from 1952 until 1961 and then transitioned to coaching, including as the team’s first head coach after George Halas, from 1968 until 1971. He returned to the team’s staff in the 1980s, including during their 1985 Super Bowl run. In 2019, Hall of Fame writers Don Pierson and Dan Pompei named Dooley one of the 100 greatest Bears of all time.
The Roushars’ house had a $37,897 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
