WLS-Channel 7 chief investigative reporter Chuck Goudie on Friday sold his six-bedroom, 6,204-square-foot French chateau-style mansion in Hinsdale for $4.05 million — slightly above his $3.995 million asking price.
A Michigan native, Goudie, 68, joined ABC 7 in 1980 and has been ABC 7’s lead investigative reporter since 1990.
Goudie first moved to Hinsdale in 1987 and with his late wife Teri, who died in 2022, owned three other houses in the DuPage County suburb before building the French chateau-style mansion.
“As our family grew, so did our housing,” Goudie told Elite Street.
Through a land trust, the couple purchased their current homesite in 2005 for $1.5 million and hired the homebuilding firm Patrick J. Murphy Builders to construct their 16-room home.
The house has 7-1/2 bathrooms, four fireplaces, a family room with a wet bar and a double-sided fireplace, a screened porch and a basement with 11-foot ceilings, a recreation room, a wet bar and a billiards area. The primary bedroom suite has a private balcony and two bathrooms and closets, and the third floor has a bonus room.
Outside on the 0.46-acre property is a swimming pool.
Goudie previously told Elite Street that with his children grown and him as the only remaining resident of his French chateau-style mansion, he had felt that it was time to downsize, but that he plans to stay in the area. He added that he also intends to remain at ABC 7 for many years to come.
Goudie and his wife had listed the home for $4.2 million in 2015 and then lowered their asking price to $3.995 million in 2018 before taking it off the market in 2019. Then, on May 3, he placed the mansion back on the market for $3.995 million. He accepted a buyer’s offer just five days later, which wound up being for slightly above his asking price.
Public records do not yet identify the buyers.
The mansion had a $53,184 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.