Oprah Winfrey is honored by Mayor Richard M. Daley outside of Harpo Studios in Chicago, May 11, 2011. (Abel Uribe/ Chicago Tribune)
Tribune reporterWinfrey, who ended her long-running Chicago-basedtalk show earlier this year, spends much of her time in California and Hawaii. She paid $5.6 million for the three-bedroom co-op unit in 2006. But the talk-show queen never actually moved into the unit, choosing instead to remain in her massive duplex condominium spread in a different building a few blocks away.
Now, Winfrey has placed the co-op unit up for rent for the first time. The sixth-floor co-op is one of 13 apartments in a Beaux Arts-style building that was built in 1913 and designed by architect Benjamin Marshall. Features in the unit include three full baths, two half baths, 10-foot ceilings, two fireplaces, an inner foyer, a library, a solarium, a formal dining room, a butler's pantry, a wine room, a custom kitchen, a 1,241-square-foot master bedroom with his and her bathrooms and an en-suite guest bedroom.
Winfrey briefly listed the unit for sale for $6 million from June 2008 until January 2009.
Listing agent Todd Vitale of Prudential Rubloff declined to comment on the listing. A spokeswoman for Winfrey declined to comment.
Winfrey owns several other pieces of residential real estate in the Chicago area, including a house in Elmwood Park that she purchased in 2001 for $298,000 and a house in Merrillville, Ind. Her primary residence is her estate in Montecito, Calif., which she purchased in 2001 for a reported $50 million.
Hitting the rental market in recent days is a massive Chicago, Illinois co-op owned by none other than former television talk show host and cable network proprietor, Oprah Winfrey. For the tidy sum of $15,000-a-month, one can reside in Oprah’s grand Beaux Arts-style home, although it should be noted that the celebrity media mogul has never actually lived in the building. No, according to the Chicago Tribune, Oprah has chosen not to move into the co-op she paid $5.6 million for in 2006, opting to instead remain situated in her colossal downtown condominium (and her $50 million Montecito palace and her Hawaiian “farmhouse” and a slew of other multi-million dollar properties that she owns).
Located in the historic East Lake Shore Drive District, Oprah’s Streeterville spread measures in at approximately 4,607-square-feet – 1,241-square-feet of which are dedicated to a master suite complete with his and her bathrooms – and enjoys spectacular views of the Chicago Harbor. As to be expected with an Oprah-owned home, the sixth-floor co-op features many of the finer things in life within, including a splendid grand foyer that gives way to an expansive living room, wood-trimmed library, formal dining area, solarium, wine room, butler’s pantry and custom-designed kitchen.
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