Longtime Chicago broadcaster Jeanne Sparrow, who hosts a weekend show on WVAZ-FM “V103” and who previously was WMAQ-Channel 5’s entertainment reporter, on June 10 sold her two-bedroom, 1,350-square-foot condominium in Logan Square for $483,600.
A Louisiana native, Sparrow began her career in Chicago in the 1990s as a radio traffic reporter before moving up to being an on-air personality at WGCI-FM, including cohosting mornings with Steve Harvey and later working as a top-rated afternoon-drive host and as a midday host. She ventured into TV while still on the radio, hosting programs on WPWR-Channel 50 in the late 1990s and on WYCC-Channel 20. From 2000 until 2005, she was entertainment and nightlife reporter for WMAQ-Channel 5, and from 2009 until 2017, Sparrow hosted and then cohosted “You & Me This Morning” on WCIU-Channel 26.
Most recently, Sparrow has been busy running her own consulting business, while also hosting a six-hour Saturday morning shift on V103.
In Logan Square, Sparrow paid $249,000 to buy the condo from her building’s developer.
“It was the first place I ever bought,” Sparrow told Elite Street. “You buy a place, and you make it your home. Living in apartments, you can make that your home for sure, but when you buy your first place, you kind of nest and you get this sense of home in a different way.”
Recently, however, Sparrow concluded that a change was in order.
“It was time for me to move on, and it was a great time to sell,” she said. “It was like a shedding — a kind of lightening of the load. I am still in the city, but right now, I am a bit of a nomad. I do plan to have some sort of base in Chicago, because I’m still on the air here at V103, but I am more mobile because I do spend part of the year in other places, Hawaii being one of them — that started during the pandemic. I travel a lot with my consulting work. And the radio work is fun, because radio is always my first love.”
The fifth-floor unit has two bathrooms, a fireplace in the living room, and a kitchen with rich cabinetry and granite countertops and a granite island. Other features include skyline views from the balcony, an ecobee thermostat, one heated garage parking space and access to a sixth-floor common roof deck with 360-degree views of the neighborhood and the Chicago skyline.
“The kitchen has an almost seven-foot island. Many parties were had around it,” Sparrow said. “I never got a dining room table, because I never needed to. And the area in front of the balcony — my friends called it ‘the dance floor.’”
Sparrow first listed the condo in April for $465,000, and she found a buyer just a week later, and for a price that was above her asking price.
Lisa Long-Brown of @properties had the listing.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.